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




                           HOPE IS ON THE WAY

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind everyone on both sides 
of the aisle, whether you're Republican, a Democrat, a Libertarian or 
an Independent, that hope is on the way.
  We have some things we can agree upon. Isn't it a fact that we all 
agree that it's time to end discrimination in health care where 
insurance companies are allowed to discriminate against you because of 
a preexisting condition? I think it's time.
  We secured equal treatment at the lunch counter 50-some years ago; 
and this year, we're going to come to some agreement here in the House 
to end the discrimination in health care and bring equality to the 
pharmacy counter as well. We can all agree it's time to end the 
discrimination in health care due to preexisting conditions, to pass a 
bill that has a standard plan, an insurance plan that includes all 
Americans, a standard plan that each and every insurance company must 
sell to any citizen throughout the land.
  In this House, at this time, we can agree on these things.

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