[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11193]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TIME FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, why should a family risk losing 
everything they have worked a lifetime for because one of their family 
members gets sick? Right now, one of the major economic crises in this 
country is the lack of accessibility to affordable health care for the 
American people.
  There are 45 million Americans without health insurance, and those 
who have health insurance are finding that their premiums, copays, and 
deductibles are putting a tremendous financial burden on their 
families. It is time for this Congress to come up with a solution.
  There is a solution at hand. It is H.R. 676, a bill to establish 
Medicare for all. A universal, single payer, not-for-profit health care 
system, which takes the resources of our system and makes it possible 
for people to be covered for all medically necessary procedures: for 
vision care, for dental care, for mental health care, for long-term 
care, and a prescription drug benefit.
  It is time that we recognize that the people of this country are 
suffering from a health care system which is not responsive to their 
needs. It is time for Medicare for all, universal single payer, not-
for-profit health care, H.R. 676.

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