[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19546-19547]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)

[[Page 19547]]


  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, we're going to hear a lot of 
rhetoric on this House floor and throughout this city of why we 
shouldn't do health care reform, but we don't have to listen to people 
here in Washington, D.C. We need to listen to our folks at home about 
why we need to pass health care reform.
  I recently was contacted by a woman from Waterbury, Connecticut, who 
suffers from type 2 diabetes. She worked her entire life, paid her 
bills, mortgage, did everything right. But now she's on COBRA and is 
about to lose it. Even though her diabetes is under control, every 
company refuses to insure her based on her preexisting condition.
  She knows that getting sick and ending up in the hospital could put 
that home that she worked so hard for in jeopardy; and she writes to 
me, Somebody has to stop the insurance companies from making decisions 
regarding life and death.
  Mr. Speaker, doing nothing here in the House of Representatives as 
our friends on the Republican side would like says to her that her 
situation is unsustainable, she has no way out. We need to pass health 
care reform to answer her and the thousands of constituents in each one 
of our districts just like her.

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