[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, Members, we, as Members of 
Congress, this week have a choice. We have a choice between voting with 
the people who need health care or voting with the insurance 
corporations who have fouled this system up for decades.
  The bill that we're going to deal with, the consumers select their 
insurance plan and their company. Consumers select their doctors. 
Consumers make treatment decisions with their doctors. Consumers will 
keep coverage they have if they change their jobs.
  The insurance companies will have less control. Insurance companies 
will no longer be able to deny coverage or revoke coverage for 
preexisting conditions. Insurance companies will no longer be allowed 
to cap medical costs that people run into all the time for treatment. 
Insurance companies will no longer be allowed to drop coverage when you 
get sick. Insurance companies will have to compete for business.
  That's why we have a choice. Whose side is your Member of Congress 
on, with the people who need health care or the ones who want to sell 
it?

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