[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3819]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. HEINRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HEINRICH. Madam Speaker, each of us faces a question about whose 
side we are on today. Will we continue to protect the insurance 
companies, or will we stand up for the American people? Protect the 
insurance companies, or stand up for people like Rebecca Gentry, small 
business owner, whose bottom line is suffering as the cost of health 
insurance for her employees continues to skyrocket.
  Protect the insurance companies or stand up for people like Joseph 
Crumb, an educational assistant, who can't get health care coverage for 
his neck and back injuries because his insurance company said they were 
preexisting conditions.
  Protect the insurance companies or stand up for people who are 
uninsured like Elise Perez-Alford, who will soon have only the 
emergency room to care for her seriously ill 2-year-old daughter 
because she can no longer afford the copayments.
  The time has come for us to stand up for the American people and to 
hold the insurance companies accountable.

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