[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26536]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. WU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WU. Mr. Speaker, reforming health care insurance is the focus of 
this Congress this fall. And what does health insurance reform mean for 
middle-income Americans? It means an insurance company can no longer 
decide to deny you coverage or jack up your rates because of a 
preexisting condition. It means it will be against the law for 
insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick. It means 
that insurance companies will no longer be able to place an arbitrary 
cap on the amount of coverage you have in a given year or in a 
lifetime. It means there will be a yearly limit on how much you can be 
charged for out-of-pocket expenses because no one should go broke if 
they get sick.
  What this means for middle-income Americans is they will no longer be 
ground between the roulette wheel of health or sickness and the 
machinations of the insurance industry. What health insurance means is 
that millions of Americans who are insured today will have more 
security and stability.

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