[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15254-15255]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. SUTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SUTTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stress the importance of 
reforming our health care system this year. Every day Americans with 
health concerns worry, not just about getting well, but whether they 
can afford to get well.
  Statistics show that the average American family already pays an 
extra $1,100 in premiums every year for a broken system that leaves 46 
million uninsured Americans, and millions more

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who are insured without the care they need when they need it.
  Americans spend more than any other population on health care; yet we 
are no healthier for the investment. President Obama and this Congress 
want to change this dynamic.
  We must make quality health care more affordable and accessible to 
every American: man, woman and child. We must enact a health care 
system, promote a health care system, ensure a health care system that 
will work for our constituents and be worthy of this great Nation.

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