[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ANDREWS. Madam Speaker, as a direct result of the White House 
summit a couple of weeks ago, good ideas from both parties are in this 
plan. But there is a philosophical difference between the two parties 
that I think came out last night. On weekends I very often go to the 
supermarket and see these little notices for beef and beer socials for 
people trying to raise money for a medical emergency in their family. 
Most of the people trying to do this have insurance. But their daughter 
has leukemia or their son is on a ventilator and they ran out of health 
insurance benefits because they run up against what is called a 
lifetime policy limit.
  Last night, we took a vote on whether or not to abolish those 
lifetime policy limits so no family should have to do that. Our side 
voted ``yes.'' Their side voted ``no.'' But Members of Congress, in 
their own health plan, if our families have this problem, there is no 
limit on what we get.
  So we think that the American people should get the same benefit that 
the men and women who vote in this Chamber every day do. We believe we 
should stand on the side of the families of this country, not the 
insurance industry.

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