[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 40 (Thursday, March 18, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1600]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, as we contemplate a historic vote to 
reform health care, I would like to emphasize how critically important 
this bill is to the women of this country. According to a report 
prepared by the Joint Economic Committee, which I chair, an estimated 
64 million women in this country lack adequate health care; over one-
quarter of our daughters between the ages of 19 and 24 lack health 
care, and women between the ages of 55 and 64 are particularly 
vulnerable. That's because so many women depend on their spouse's 
employer-based health care, and, all too often, they discover they are 
not age eligible for Medicare when their older husbands retire. A 
staggering 39 percent of all low-income women lack health care.
  Ultimately, this is a vote about who we will be as a country. For our 
sisters, our daughters, and our mothers, yes, vote ``yes'' for them.

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