[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15253-15254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      BREAKING DOWN THE UNINSURED

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, earlier today, and in the many days before, we 
heard our colleagues talk over and over and over again about how we 
have so many people in this country who do not have access to health 
care. That's not accurate. They have access to health care. What 
they're talking about is people who are uninsured.
  But let me talk about the numbers that make up what they're talking 
about as 45.7 million Americans who are uninsured. That's not true 
either; 9.5 million of those are noncitizens; 12 million of them are 
eligible for public programs such as Medicaid and Medicare; 7.3 million 
have incomes over $84,000 and choose not to purchase health insurance; 
and 9.1 million are only temporarily uninsured. That brings us down to 
7.8 million American citizens, lower income, long-term uninsured, a 
much different figure from the 45 million they tout all the time. And a 
preliminary report by CBO says that they want to spend $1 trillion on 
this.

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