[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1455-H1456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. My voice is not quite clear, but 
I hope, Madam Speaker, that you can hear me.
  We are hearing so much talk, and you know why? Because we are at a 
point where we are going to choose consumers over insurance companies. 
And it is time for that to happen. Insurance companies have held this 
public hostage for many years, controlling

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them. When we talk about rationing, that is who is rationing. They tell 
the physicians what to do, they tell the hospitals what to do. It is 
time to take the insurance companies out of control and let the people 
have their right to pick their health care.
  We have always said if you have a health care plan you like, keep it. 
We are trying to make sure that the people that the insurance companies 
will not insure or will drop get a chance to have health insurance. 
This is misplaced anger because these insurance companies are spending 
a million dollars a day to kill this bill. And their cheering squad is 
right over here to my left.
  We have got to do this for the people. It is time for the people to 
have a choice in their health care.

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