[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WE MUST PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM NOW

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because we cannot 
wait another moment to pass health reform. We need health care, and we 
need it now. The American people cannot wait. Health care delayed is 
health care denied. It is our moral obligation to lead the way. Every 
day that we wait, 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance. People 
losing their health, their homes or their very lives because our health 
system does not work for them. This is not right. It is not just. It is 
not fair.
  And we can do better. We can do much better. At the March on 
Washington 46 years ago, I said, ``They tell us to wait. They tell us 
to be patient.'' We cannot wait. We cannot be patient. I say, today, we 
want health care reform, and we want it now. We must answer the call of 
history and pass health care reform, and pass it now.

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