[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5399]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         NO PATIENT LEFT BEHIND

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, we're going to be listening this evening to 
President Obama, and one of his featured subjects will be health care. 
What we don't need in the United States is socialized medicine. We 
don't need more government control of our personal lives.
  What we do need is access to affordable health care for everyone. And 
to guarantee access to affordable care for every citizen, we need to 
enact the essential elements of health care, which are, first, that 
there shall be no discrimination against any citizen due to any pre-
existing condition.
  Second, there should be open disclosure of all prices, so we know the 
price of a pill before we swallow it.
  And, third, we need to secure the same discounts for all citizens so 
we all pay the same price for the same service or product.
  We can also create the largest risk pools possible to leverage down 
prices for all of us. Imagine this: We are only one law away from 
guaranteeing access to affordable care for everyone everywhere in these 
United States.

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