[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3524]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, every time I hear a Republican talking 
about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. 
They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince 
themselves that it's true. But there's a national poll that shows what 
the real story is.
  They asked, of all the people who are opposed to health care or say 
they are, how many are opposed to it because they don't think it goes 
far enough. Forty percent. Almost 40 percent said that was the reason. 
They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform. They will be 
ecstatic, like the shopkeeper I talked to over Christmas who said she 
was against what we're doing because she has diabetes and she can't 
wait 4 years for the help she needs.
  No, the American people will applaud us when we pass comprehensive 
health care reform, and I will consider it the proudest moment of my 
service.

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