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




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, before we celebrate the new health care 
legislation, keep in mind that the American people will be required by 
law to buy private insurance, and they will pay a penalty if they 
don't; that insurance companies will be subsidized by the government; 
that insurance companies have had double-digit increases in premiums in 
the past 4 years; that we are locking in a for-profit structure. This 
is the result of a health care debate, the flawed premise of which is 
that health care reform cannot happen without the cooperation of the 
insurance companies which make money not providing health care.
  The truth is that reform cannot happen with them; that insurance 
companies are the problem, not the solution; and that the legislation, 
no matter how well intended, will likely not be able to deliver and 
cost too much and be another bailout for Big Business at the expense of 
the American people.

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