[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 40 (Thursday, March 18, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1598]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Health care reform is needed now. Not tomorrow, not 
yesterday, but now.
  After decades of working hard, the Hernandezes from my district now 
struggle to pay for prescription drugs with disability payments and 
unemployment checks. This is wrong.
  With the fourth highest foreclosure in the Nation and 15 percent 
unemployment in my district, my constituents cannot wait any longer. We 
need health care reform now. Health care reform will lower the costs 
and hold health insurance companies accountable; provide new coverage 
for 31 million people; end discrimination based on preexisting 
conditions; close the doughnut hole for thousands of seniors; allow 
75,000 young adults in my district under the age of 27 to stay under 
their parents' coverage; provide millions of dollars for funding for 
seven community centers in my district; cut the national deficit by a 
hundred-and-some billion over 10 years; and produce 4 million new jobs 
in the coming decade.
  Health care reform is good for seniors, good for adults, good for 
women, good for families, good for America. Let's support health care 
reform now.

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