[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27029]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning to speak out in favor 
of reforming our health care system to guarantee that every citizen has 
access to the care that they need when and where they need it, at a 
price they can afford to pay. People like Jenny, who is a single mother 
of two asthmatic children who I got the fortune of taking care of. With 
two asthmatic children, she couldn't afford the price of the 
prescription drugs they needed to keep her children healthy.
  People like Mary with rheumatoid arthritis so severe that she is an 
expensive date to the insurance companies and for which no other 
insurance company would take her because of her preexisting condition.
  People like Stacie, who had cancer of her thyroid and had it 
surgically cured, and yet, because of a preexisting condition, would be 
denied access to the care she needs.
  And, finally, people like a 6-day-old child named Hope, who at 6 days 
of age, through no fault of her own, had to have heart surgery to 
correct a heart deformity.
  We are going to change this health care system and guarantee that no 
one shall suffer from discrimination any longer in this country.

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