[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27827]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of special 
interests out there that are making noise about what the House health 
care bill means for seniors. But seniors that I met with yesterday in 
Meriden, Connecticut, they're not falling for the scare tactics. That's 
because for years they've been dealing with the rising cost of health 
insurance, and they're the ones that have been paying for the 
prescription drug doughnut hole that was created by the Republicans and 
their drug industry allies. The seniors that I talked to yesterday, 
they support the health care reform bill because it lowers their out-
of-pocket expenses in Medicare. It eliminates the doughnut hole, and it 
extends the life of Medicare to make sure that it will be around for 
their kids and their grandkids.
  And that's why AARP supports the bill as well, with polling showing 
that their members also support health care reform by a 2-1 margin. Mr. 
Speaker, seniors out there support health care reform because they, 
better than anybody, know what the status quo is, and they don't like 
it.

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