[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23020]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MAKE HEALTH CARE AFFORDABLE

  (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JENKINS. The health care debate we're having right now is 
complex. It's personal. It will affect every single American. And it 
will affect our Nation's financial stability for years. We must get 
this right.
  It appears the current House proposal is not what Americans are 
asking for. Just yesterday, a Senate committee rejected the so-called 
``public option'' on a bipartisan vote.
  Republicans have solutions that I believe most Americans agree on--
solutions to root out waste, fraud and abuse; solutions to provide care 
regardless of preexisting conditions; solutions to help families access 
affordable care; solutions to reduce the cost of defensive medicine; 
solutions to fix the system without destroying it.
  This debate must be thorough and the solution bipartisan. It's time 
to come together and to make health care affordable.

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