[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3821-3822]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, as we contemplate a historic vote to 
reform health care, I would like to emphasize

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how critically important this bill is to the women of this country. 
According to a report prepared by the Joint Economic Committee, which I 
chair, an estimated 64 million women in this country lack adequate 
health care; over one-quarter of our daughters between the ages of 19 
and 24 lack health care, and women between the ages of 55 and 64 are 
particularly vulnerable. That's because so many women depend on their 
spouse's employer-based health care, and, all too often, they discover 
they are not age eligible for Medicare when their older husbands 
retire. A staggering 39 percent of all low-income women lack health 
care.
  Ultimately, this is a vote about who we will be as a country. For our 
sisters, our daughters, and our mothers, yes, vote ``yes'' for them.

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