[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. SUTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SUTTON. Mr. Speaker, what we're seeing here is, we are on the 
brink of passing health care reform in this country. Why are we doing 
that? We're doing this for my constituents and constituents across the 
country. We're doing it for the grandparents who I saw on Sunday, whose 
12-year-old granddaughter, a life full of promise, is awaiting a 
transplant, but she might not be able to get that transplant. They have 
optimistic signs that she would be fine, but she might not get that 
because her health insurance is about to reach its cap.
  And we're doing it for the elderly gentleman who I met. He had a part 
of his arm stripped away because he had melanoma as a young man. He 
never had another day of sickness regarding melanoma in his life, but 
he has dodged health care issues forever because he couldn't get 
insurance because of his preexisting condition. Now he's on Medicare, 
and he has that system that is working for him.
  But that's not how it should be in this country. You shouldn't have 
to wait to be 65 in order to access affordable, quality health care. 
We're better than that, and we're going to give the American people 
better than that.

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