[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1875-1876]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, we are always glad to have the President 
of the United States in Ohio, but his health care policies miss an 
important fact, and that is that $1 out of every $4 for health care in 
the United States goes to the for-profit sector. $1.6 trillion is spent 
every year on health care in the United States, but over $400 billion 
goes for corporate profits, advertising, marketing, the cost of 
paperwork, up to 30 percent for the cost of paperwork.
  We have over 46 million Americans who lack health insurance, who lack 
access to quality health care. H.R. 676, the Conyers-Kucinich-Kaptur 
bill, presents Americans with an alternative, universal, single-payer, 
not-for-profit health care, Medicare for all.
  There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking 
health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost 
much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, 
Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just 
not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It 
is not about people. Support Medicare for all.

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