[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCHAUER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCHAUER. Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I am from the State of 
Michigan, where people are losing their health insurance every day. 
Businesses are struggling to pay for health insurance for their 
employees.
  I rise today to give voice to one of my constituents, Mike Gossett, 
who works for Apollo Express, a trucking company in Jackson, Michigan. 
He says he is a partner in this company of 70 full- and part-time 
employees. They have 42 employees on their health insurance program. 
Just this year, they received notice of a 15 percent increase in their 
health insurance rates for next year. He tells me this happens each and 
every year, and they are looking for answers. He fears that they will 
be forced to continue to decrease their coverage where they will just 
be able to offer catastrophic coverage for their employees.
  Our families and our businesses are paying more and more every year 
and getting less and less. He is calling upon us, Democrats and 
Republicans, to fix this problem. That's why I am here in Congress, and 
I hope we can work together to pass health care reform.

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