[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, as our country embarks on a great national 
debate about health care, we are already seeing the fear-mongering 
beginning, that people are going to lose their health insurance.
  Let us be very clear. As President Obama says, if you have health 
insurance and a doctor, if you like your health insurance and your 
doctor, you will keep your health insurance and your doctor. And there 
is no group for which that is more true than our military personnel and 
our veterans.
  Recently, at the Groton Navy base, I was at the PX being approached 
by individuals asking if President Obama was going to take away their 
TRICARE and their veterans benefits. Nothing could be further from the 
truth. In fact, we are going to be strengthening veterans benefits and 
TRICARE under the great leadership of the VA Secretary, Eric Shinseki.
  So let the message be clear. Before all the fear-mongering, and 
before all the misleading information begins, if you are serving our 
country, if you are wearing the uniform of our Nation, your health care 
will be protected and strengthened under President Obama's health care 
reform effort.

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