[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27183-27184]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PASS HEALTH CARE TODAY

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, we are a great Nation, a 
prosperous and compassionate one, but our health care system doesn't 
measure up to that greatness. In fact, we pay twice what every other 
industrialized nation pays, and yet 71 nations have enabled their 
people to live longer and healthier lives. The difference is that they 
have decided that the health of their people is a higher priority than 
the profit of their insurance companies.
  Mr. Speaker, we, today, will have the opportunity to bring our health 
care system up to a standard deserving of the greatness of this Nation 
by controlling our costs, by covering all of our

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people, and by improving the quality of the care that they receive.
  This bill is deserving of the greatness of our Nation. It must pass 
today.

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