[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3524-3525]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. In listening to this debate back and forth, I can't help 
but be struck by the fact that many of the arguments from the other 
side of the aisle are simply not arguments against this health care 
bill. I have heard people rail against a government takeover of health 
care. Well, this bill actually helps reduce the number of people that 
depend on government programs for their health care. This bill will 
help end reliance on government for health care.
  I have heard people say that this is somehow a rush to get to a bill. 
Well, we have been working on this for well over a year. When we first 
started over a year ago, I had calls to my office saying, ``Why are you 
going so quickly? Why don't you slow down and get it right?'' Now I am 
getting a lot of calls to my office saying, ``Pass health care already. 
It's all you've been talking about.''
  It is time to pass this bill because what is in it is popular with 
the American people: letting kids and young people stay on their 
parents' policy until they are 26, ending pricing discrimination based 
upon preexisting conditions, helping make insurance

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more affordable for people who are self-employed and in small 
businesses. That is what is in this bill, and that is what the American 
people support.

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