[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6389]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     BENEFITS OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, how can you repeal a law 
that helps millions of Americans for better health care? The repeal 
Republicans are once again off base and not right in their assumptions.
  Millions of Americans will benefit from the new health care bill. You 
and your doctor will determine your care and not the insurance 
companies. Small businesses with 50 employees or less will get tax 
credits to help them pay their premiums. So the millions of people who 
work in small businesses can now have health care.
  Your children who are graduating from college and find themselves 
with no job will be able to stay on your health care until age 26.
  These were the same rumblings they had in 1965 with Medicare, health 
care for over 44 million seniors. Medicare today is one of the best 
programs for health care for seniors, and this bill extends its 
lifetime almost a decade. Social Security, passed in 1934, is one of 
the most successful programs we have.
  It is a good bill. The repeal Republicans are wrong again.

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