[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              IT IS TIME TO CHANGE OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak out in favor of my 
constituents, like Jim from Green Bay, who says that every citizen 
should have health care: I have no insurance. I'm 60 years old.
  It is time to fix that problem in a bipartisan way.
  I am speaking out today for Sally from Kaukauna, who says: Our 
prescriptions cost $1,000 a month. This is a very big issue for our 
family.
  Well, Sally, hope is on the way. We have to pass legislation that 
allows the people to negotiate for lower prescription drug costs, to 
guarantee that if you're a citizen you should be in the risk pool, and 
insurance companies, well, they ought to be processing paper, not 
practicing medicine.
  It is time to change our health care system and to move towards a 
market-based system that really works for everybody and that guarantees 
for every citizen that, if they have an opportunity, they should have 
it at the lowest price. Every business entity should show us their 
prices and then accept as payment in full the lowest price that is 
accepted from anybody else.

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