[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. MOORE of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MOORE of Kansas. Congress should have passed something on health 
care reform 40 years ago. We can't change what didn't happen for 40 
years. But this year we had an opportunity to do something, and 
Congress finally did it.
  When people in our country get sick and they don't have health 
insurance, they stay home, they stay home, they stay home until they're 
deathly ill. Then they go to the emergency room where they get the most 
expensive kind of health care there is in our country, and we all end 
up paying for it. We can and should do better.
  We did better this year by passing health care reform for our people 
and our country. The Congressional Budget Office, CBO, says this will 
end up saving money on health care for people in our country. They are 
a nonpartisan entity that provides reliable information to both sides, 
Republicans and Democrats, and they're saying we can save money by 
this. We will do that.
  We did the right thing for our people and our country by passing 
health care reform.

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