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




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. My voice is not quite clear, but 
I hope, Madam Speaker, that you can hear me.
  We are hearing so much talk, and you know why? Because we are at a 
point where we are going to choose consumers over insurance companies. 
And it is time for that to happen. Insurance companies have held this 
public hostage for many years, controlling them. When we talk about 
rationing, that is who is rationing. They tell the physicians what to 
do, they tell the hospitals what to do. It is time to take the 
insurance companies out of control and let the people have their right 
to pick their health care.
  We have always said if you have a health care plan you like, keep it. 
We are trying to make sure that the people that the insurance companies 
will not insure or will drop get a chance to have health insurance. 
This is misplaced anger because these insurance companies are spending 
a million dollars a day to kill this bill. And their cheering squad is 
right over here to my left.
  We have got to do this for the people. It is time for the people to 
have a choice in their health care.

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