[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REFORMING HEALTH INSURANCE

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, reforming health 
insurance must be our focus for now. The vast majority of Americans 
already have health insurance.
  The question is, what does our health care reform bill mean to them? 
Just three things. It means an insurance company can no longer decide 
to deny any coverage or jack up your rates because of preexisting 
conditions. It means it will be against the law for insurance companies 
to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need 
it most. It also means insurance companies will no longer be able to 
place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage that you receive 
each year.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the insurance companies to come to the 
table, spend the millions on corrective measures instead of spending 
millions to pass out these mistruths and falsehoods, and try to work 
this problem out. The American people deserve everyone working together 
to get decent health care reform for the people of this Nation, and 
they don't deserve all the misinformation that's going around out 
there.

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