[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 707]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HELP FOR AMERICA'S UNINSURED

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there has been a great deal of 
controversy that has arisen over what I think is not only good policy 
but good for America, and that is real health care reform. Today I 
listened to the story of a mother who lost her son, whose name was 
Mike. Because he could not get a colonoscopy to determine whether or 
not he had colon cancer, he is not living today. He could not get it 
because he did not have insurance.
  We need health care reform that allows Americans to have the dignity 
of health care and, as well, the respect of treatment. I met a man 
today who is blind because he could not get the treatment while he was 
going blind to reverse that terrible disability. It could have occurred 
with good health care, and we must stop allowing 45,000 Americans to 
die every year because they do not have good health care.
  We can do it by putting the bill together, House and Senate, 
reconciliation, protecting physician-owned hospitals, preventing 
individuals from being denied insurance because of preexisting disease, 
insuring 36 million to 40 million. I ask my colleagues to join for what 
is best for America.

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