[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 21630-21631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, all of us had the opportunity to spend 5 
weeks at home, listening to our constituents. And in Vermont, when I 
arrived home, such as with many of you, people were very fearful about 
a health care bill, a health care bill that was going to establish 
death panels, a health care bill where the government was going to 
select your doctor, a health care bill that would have as its primary 
beneficiaries illegal immigrants.
  Of course, that is not a health care bill that anyone in this body is 
considering. But as we proceeded and pushed back on the misinformation, 
it became increasingly clear that the health care bill President Obama 
has outlined, which has been passed by three committees in this House 
to regulate insurance companies so that they offer real insurance, to 
extend coverage to 37 million Americans--something good for them but 
also for those of us with insurance, to reduce our cost shift premium 
of $1,100, and a public option to provide competition and choice--that

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is a health care bill that Americans support, and we must pass.

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