[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3819-3820]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Health care reform is needed now. Not tomorrow, not 
yesterday, but now.
  After decades of working hard, the Hernandezes from my district now 
struggle to pay for prescription drugs with disability payments and 
unemployment checks. This is wrong.
  With the fourth highest foreclosure in the Nation and 15 percent 
unemployment in my district, my constituents

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cannot wait any longer. We need health care reform now. Health care 
reform will lower the costs and hold health insurance companies 
accountable; provide new coverage for 31 million people; end 
discrimination based on preexisting conditions; close the doughnut hole 
for thousands of seniors; allow 75,000 young adults in my district 
under the age of 27 to stay under their parents' coverage; provide 
millions of dollars for funding for seven community centers in my 
district; cut the national deficit by a hundred-and-some billion over 
10 years; and produce 4 million new jobs in the coming decade.
  Health care reform is good for seniors, good for adults, good for 
women, good for families, good for America. Let's support health care 
reform now.

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