[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19568]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  EVERY DAY MUCH IS LOST FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE

  (Mr. HARE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HARE. Mr. Speaker, I was watching from my office and felt the 
need to come down. I don't have a fancy chart, as we've been seeing 
periodically. But let me give you some facts. We're going to be 
adjourning for 37 days at the end of this week. For 12 years, Mr. 
Speaker, our friends on the other side of the aisle had this Chamber; 
and the only thing we got out of it was the most miserable prescription 
drug program and nothing more than a boondoggle for seniors.
  But while we're home and having our town hall meetings, here are the 
real facts that I hope not just my friends will listen to because 
they're important. Every day for the next 37 days, 400 people per day 
will die because they don't have health care--14,800 Americans, 34 
people every day on an average every congressional district. Put that 
on a chart. For the next 37 days, 14,000 people every day will lose 
their health care, 518,000 Americans will lose their health care, 1,190 
per day. We need to have more than town hall meetings.

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