[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, as we enter now an historic moment in our 
country's progress towards creating a fair, a more just, and a better 
economy for ourselves and for our children, I want to offer for the 
record a quote--a fee quote--from a business in my district with 60 
employees which underlines why we need to move forward. This is one of 
the good guys. He employs 60 people with good wages and benefits, and 
for 2010, he has been told that his health insurance premiums are going 
up 32 percent.
  We have heard for months now about how we're moving too fast and 
about how we've got to take our time, but the fact of the matter is 
that it is time to act so we can have an economy that can address 
creating new jobs without taking on enormous new benefit costs, which 
is the reality today, particularly for small businesses and for the 
self-employed.
  If you care about growing this economy, if you care about giving the 
risk-takers of America the opportunity to go out and to pursue their 
dreams, we have got to create a stable marketplace, which H.R. 3692 
will do with a national health insurance purchasing exchange.

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