[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23317]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MAD AS HELL DOCTORS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. I want to acknowledge the presence in our Capitol of a 
group of physicians who have traveled across the country rallying 
public support for a single-payer health care system.
  The group, which calls itself the Mad As Hell Doctors, is expressing 
the concern of millions of Americans about a health care system which 
is failing to meet the people's needs: that there are 47 million 
Americans without any health insurance, that 50 million Americans are 
underinsured, that people are literally going broke, not being able to 
pay their hospital bills.
  We clearly recognize that this system is not sustainable. That's why 
John Conyers and I drafted a bill, H.R. 676, that provides for 
universal single-payer, not-for-profit health care. We're already 
paying for such a system. It's just that we're not getting it because 
$1 out of every $3 goes for the activities of the for-profit system for 
corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, 
marketing, the cost of paperwork.
  It's time to take that $800 billion a year and put it into care for 
people. Everyone is covered then for vision care, dental health care, 
mental health care, prescription drugs, long-term care. It's time for 
single-payer.

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