[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, you know, I will tell you what is 
scary. What is scary is the woman who came into my office a few weeks 
ago who shared her story with me to tell me about her breast cancer 
experience that she had just been through for the third time. She told 
me how I as a breast cancer survivor was fortunate because when I was 
diagnosed all I had to worry about was fighting the cancer. When she 
was diagnosed, she also one day later lost her job and, with it, her 
health insurance. So not only did she have to battle breast cancer, but 
she also was faced with battling how she was going to get her health 
care taken care of so she could get well from breast cancer and 
continue to be the survivor that she has been for many, many years.
  Americans are tired of the party of ``no.'' Americans are tired of 
obstacle after obstacle standing at that podium insisting on making up 
things that just aren't true.
  There are bills out there that are available and accessible to anyone 
to look at. This has been an open and transparent process. But the 
bottom line is there are 46 million people that don't have health 
insurance. We need to provide stability and security to those that do 
and bring the costs down.
  I challenge our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to work 
with us on true health care reform, instead of being the party of 
``no.''

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