[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, when I was home recently, I 
spoke to a constituent who had lost his job because he had contracted 
gall bladder cancer. He was using every dime of his unemployment 
benefits to pay for the treatment necessary to keep him alive.
  He is an example of the millions of Americans who have either lost 
their health care because they got sick and lost their job or the 
millions more who are just one paycheck or one illness away from losing 
their own. We have to have an answer for those individuals and for 
those families.
  The Republican strategy of stopping health care reform at no cost 
provides no answer for the people of this country who have been waiting 
too long for a solution. It's time for this House to get beyond 
politics and start to provide real answers for the millions of 
individuals and families like that gentleman, who has his life put at 
stake by his lack of health care, and come together. Put politics aside 
and pass health care reform that will lower costs and expand access for 
the people of this country.

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