[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, all of the American 
people need health care now. Reform must come, and it's coming to the 
floor very soon.
  For those who are pleased with their health care insurance, they can 
keep it. Their costs might even go down with reform. What we want to do 
is rescue the insurance from under antitrust-ignoring insurance 
companies. We all pay insurance, and we like insurance, but no one 
wants to be abused by any system, and we have seen that happen.
  The hospitals are attempting to perform all of this uncompensated 
care. With this reform, it will be different. I suppose that correcting 
preexisting conditions and getting sick will cause some to lose health 
care support. We must make this change.
  You know, I keep hearing what the Republicans are saying, but Mr. 
Speaker, but that's not what the plan says.

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