[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25790-25791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, our chance to make health care available to 
and affordable for the people of the United States is here. I prefer 
that we include the robust public option in our final plan because, 
first, it saves more than $110 billion over any other plan, it covers 
far more people, and it provides real competition to private health 
insurers, which in turn will provide lower cost and higher quality for 
the people that are insured in the United States.
  This is what we need. This is what we need to do for the people of 
our country. And now is the time for us to get on with it and do it.

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