[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1457]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, our colleagues on the other 
side say they want to start over, completely over. They would like to 
privatize Social Security. They would like to make sure that Medicare, 
a program that has served our seniors so well over all of these years, 
is also, well, doesn't just wither on the vine, as Speaker Gingrich 
wanted it to do, they want to ban it, end it for people under 55 years 
of age.
  The other side would like to frame this issue as a matter of process. 
It is a matter of process, insurance process and them denying people 
claims even on their way to the operating table. This is why we are 
putting forth this bill to reform insurance and create health care for 
this entire country that they can depend upon and rely on.
  It becomes a question of whose side you are on in the final analysis. 
Are you siding with the insurance industry and the great job that they 
have done raising rates all across this Nation? Or are you standing 
with the American people and fighting on their behalf? That is what the 
people of this great country of ours want to know.

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