[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18580]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     HEALTH CARE WILL BENEFIT AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURIAL INITIATIVES

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, before I was elected to the House of 
Representatives, I was an entrepreneur. I started several technology 
companies. Entrepreneurs across this country are a constant source of 
creativity, of job creation, of unleashing their creative potential to 
create jobs and bring new products and services to the marketplace. 
There are people today, Mr. Speaker, that would love to be 
entrepreneurs but for the fact that they are wedded and trapped in jobs 
because of the nontransportability of their health care. Mr. Speaker, 
for them and their families, they have to keep their current jobs. They 
can't go off on their own. They can't start new companies. They might 
have great ideas that would unlock great value, and yet they are 
prohibited from doing so.
  One of the great benefits of the Obama health care plan is that we 
will allow people to pursue their potential, to create jobs, to go off 
on their own without taking that risk of losing health care for them 
and their families. By doing so, we can unleash the potential of the 
American people and entrepreneurs across the country to create value 
and create jobs.

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