[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           DO YOU FEEL LUCKY?

  (Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. You've heard the commercial: Don't support 
government health care.
  So the question that you need to ask yourself then is, Do I feel 
lucky? Do I feel lucky that I won't be one of the 14,000 people a day 
who lose their jobs and can't afford health insurance, that I won't 
have such a high deductible that I avoid preventive care and end up 
with end-stage cancer because I didn't go to the doctor. Well, am I 
lucky?
  Do I feel lucky that Junior won't break a bone and I end up in the 
emergency room with a $5,000 bill? Do I feel lucky that I won't go 
bankrupt from my health care problems? Do I feel lucky that I won't 
have some preexisting condition that prevents me from getting a new 
job? Do I feel lucky that my health care premium won't grow three times 
faster than my salary?
  The American economy is in the intensive care unit. The disease is 
the high cost of health care, and the medicine is health care reform.

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