[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. I had a remarkable American in my office this morning, 
Gary Hall, who won five golds, three silvers, and two bronzes in three 
Olympic Games in freestyle swimming, a remarkable person. And he told 
me a story about having insurance for 12 years while he was in the 
Olympics, but then after he lost the Olympics, he couldn't get 
insurance. Do you know why? He has diabetes.
  Here is a guy who won gold, silver, and bronze medals and couldn't 
get insurance in America because he had diabetes. And the reason he 
couldn't get insurance in America is that we haven't passed our health 
care reform bill yet.
  In the next few days, we are going to put up at least 216 votes, I 
hope, green lights on that board, to pass health care reform so that 
Gary Hall can get insurance; and even if you haven't won a gold medal, 
you can get insurance if you have diabetes. And these people who are 
smoking something, I don't know what, who think we aren't going to take 
a vote on this, I am going to take a picture of this board to show you 
the votes, because the green lights are going to be to make sure that 
people with diabetes can get insurance, and the red lights will be you 
can't get insurance even if you have won a gold medal. That is not 
right. It is going to change in this country.

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