[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1460]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Madam Speaker, I am outraged also. I am really 
outraged at the amount of money that the insurance industry has spent 
trying to defeat this bill that will help the American people. The 
companies claim they support health reform, just not this bill. But 
they have done nothing to reform. They could have taken this time to 
reform. They still deny coverage for preexisting conditions. They still 
charge exorbitant rates. They still fight antitrust legislation. They 
still cancel people's policies when they most need them. And they still 
limit the payments when people get sick.
  They have a secret code word. It's called ``start over.'' What they 
really mean is defeat it; we don't want it. The question has to be 
here, whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the insurance 
companies? Or are you on the side of the American public, the people, 
the small businesses who have to carry the burden of these fees? Whose 
side are you really on? I am on the side of middle class Americans, 
small businesses, and those who are healthy and those who are sick.

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