[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 26702-26703]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, well, 140 days after the Republican leaders 
promised a health care plan, it was leaked. It is a bold proposal. I 
think it was actually drafted downtown by the health insurance industry 
association, just like their prescription drug bill was drafted by the 
pharmaceutical industry.
  Now the Democrats' bill outlaws the most abusive practices of the 
insurance industry: preexisting condition exclusion policy cancellation 
when you get sick, called rescission. Not the Republicans, they can 
still cancel your policy

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when you get sick. Even if you have been paying your premiums, they can 
still discriminate against your preexisting conditions. The Republicans 
wouldn't touch that one.
  Now the Republicans actually are going to facilitate further abuses. 
The Democrats rescind the antitrust exemption of the insurance 
industry. Not the Republicans. In fact, they are creating a new safe 
haven for this industry. The industry can sell a national policy which 
will solve all of the problems, but they can go to any State they 
choose to sell that policy from.
  They will choose the most abusive, least regulated State in the 
Union. And if you live in Oregon and you have a complaint about your 
insurance provider, you will have to file it in Delaware with the 
corporation commissioner. No, give it to the Republicans, new safe 
havens for the abusive insurance industry. Good work, guys.

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