[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18155]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IMPENDING CRISIS IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about an impending 
crisis in our health care system. If this Congress can't figure out a 
way to reimburse the doctors that take care of our older Americans, our 
follow citizens, our mothers and fathers and grandparents that are on 
Medicare, this Nation is going to be in a world of hurt. It is time 
that we put aside petty politics, figure out how we're going to 
reimburse the doctors and keep the Medicare system going.
  There are millions of Americans, certainly hundreds of thousands of 
seniors in the district that I represent, that depend on Medicare to 
have their health care needs met. You take away their doctors, you take 
away any chance they have of getting medical care.
  Let's get moving on this and provide a permanent fix to reimbursing 
the doctors, and let's help our seniors stay on Medicare.

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