[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I have been here 18 years 
fighting for health care for Americans. There are, regardless of whose 
numbers you use, millions of uninsured people in this country and tens 
of millions who are underinsured and have become, in many respects, the 
prime justification for moving forward with one of the most aggressive 
health care reform agendas in modern history.
  However, despite the unquestionable need for intervention, some have 
sought to dominate the health care debate with fear-mongering, 
misinformation, and blind opposition to key reform elements without 
offering substantive and high-quality alternatives. This perpetuation 
of fictions and misinterpretations is off base and has steered the 
health care discussion off course.
  One thing I asked Americans all summer long as we got to this point 
was name me the day in the last 10 years that your health care went 
down. Name the day. You name the day.

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