[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1462]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Madam Speaker, by now, we all know 
the many flaws with the health care bill that is going to be rammed 
through this House, and there certainly are many.
  It cuts Medicare by one-half trillion dollars. It raises taxes, 
jeopardizes patient access to health care, and puts an unelected 
bureaucrat, or many bureaucrats, in charge of your health care.
  I want to tell a brief story about something that happened to me this 
weekend.
  I was in a local drugstore with a friend of mine waiting for a 
prescription, and a woman came up to me and she said, Are you Ginny 
Brown-Waite? And I said, Yes, ma'am. And she said, I want to talk to 
you about the health care bill.
  She proceeded to tell me, she said, I am about to lose my job, which 
means I will lose my health care. And I thought I knew what she was 
next going to say, and she totally shocked me. She pointed to her 
daughter, who she told me was 9 years old, and she said, But I don't 
want you to vote for that bill, Congresswoman, because I don't want 
this child and her children paying for an out-of-control health care 
system in America.
  I believe that she really speaks the way most Americans believe.

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