[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3853]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN

  (Mrs. NAPOLITANO asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Speaker, the facts are that, according to the 
National Institutes of Health, suicide is the leading cause of death 
for women. That is unacceptable.
  Actually, adequate health care coverage is critical to the future of 
women who suffer in silence from mental illness, whether it is 
postpartum depression, or some of the military women whose families are 
not covered by VA who suffer loneliness, stress, depression, and 
everything that goes with it, especially if they're tending to a spouse 
who's got TBI or PTSD.
  They're rejected by the insurance, denied coverage for preexisting 
conditions. There's articles by The L.A. Times, The Memphis Editorial, 
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dayton Daily News, 
Detroit Free Press, and The Missouri Herald, supporting health care 
reform.
  We must vote for it. Let's get it done.

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