[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              AMERICA NEEDS QUALITY AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, America faces a vital decision to improve 
health care for all, both its quality and affordability. But follow the 
money. Ask yourself, Who's making the big bucks off the current 
arrangement? Aren't you tired of all those expensive medicine ads on 
TV? If you weren't sick before you watch them you're sick afterwards.
  Pharmaceutical companies are the third most profitable industry in 
our country. They don't even manufacture most of those medicines here 
anymore. They outsourced them long ago. And their CEOs grab millions of 
dollars a year in salaries and bonuses from our middle class that's 
struggling more each year just to pay for insurance. And the insurance 
companies? They're raking in your health insurance dollars too. They 
don't deliver an ounce of care, but they've become the ninth most 
profitable industry in our country. Go to any state capital. Who owns 
the highest buildings in those towns? Insurance companies. That says it 
all. America needs quality, affordable health care, not insurance and 
pharmaceutical kingdoms.

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