[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18491-18492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              LET'S PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER ON HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. The majority Democrats in this Congress are trying very 
hard to pass a health care bill that will be a good bill for the 
American people. Our friends on the other side of the aisle don't seem 
to want to cooperate.
  It's a national disgrace that there are 47 million Americans that 
have no health care coverage whatsoever. It's a national disgrace that 
our emergency rooms are being used to help people that have no coverage 
whatsoever. It's a national disgrace that so many of our health care 
dollars are going into administrative costs.
  We are trying to craft a plan that will put America back on the road 
so that every American will have health care; so that health care as we 
know it will be improved; so that people that like their health care 
can keep their health care, but people that don't have health care, can 
get health care.
  We know that the system is broken. I don't want to hear people on the 
other side of the aisle talk about deficits because when they were in 
the majority for 12 years, they gave us the biggest deficits in 
American history and left us with red ink as far as the eye can see.
  So I would urge my friends on both sides of the aisle, let's put our 
heads together and come up with a real, good

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health plan that America can be proud of.

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