[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25800]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BARTLETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Speaker, this morning, I had what was, for me, a 
very emotional meeting in my office. Representatives from the home 
health care industry were there, lamenting the fact that tens of 
billions of dollars will be cut from home health care in this bill that 
we may have to vote on.
  It was emotional for me because I thought of my mother, who, during 
the last months of her life, would have liked nothing more than to be 
home, and her family wanted her there. She would have been happier, and 
probably would have lived longer, but because of limitations of funds 
and because of regulations, she had to be in an institution. The 
toughest moment of my life was when I would go there to visit her, and 
she would say, ``I want to go home.''
  Please, we've got to get it right. This bill doesn't get it right. 
It's just one more place where it doesn't get it right. Let's get it 
right before we finish it.

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