[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 215]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              HEALTH CARE REPEAL IS NO GAME FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. In the middle of the health care debate, a 
gentleman came into my office in Waterbury, Connecticut, and delivered 
a petition signed by 3,000 people. He was fighting two battles--one 
against the cancer that was ravaging his body and another to keep his 
health insurance to prevent himself from going bankrupt. This is a 
situation faced by millions of Americans who have a condition and a 
disease that is also potentially contributing to the downfall of their 
entire household. This is a situation that they shouldn't be in.
  This is no game, this debate over whether we continue or repeal 
health care. But it seems to be a game to my Republican friends. This 
bill isn't going to pass. It's going nowhere. When a CBO estimate 
emerges saying it's going to cost taxpayers $230 billion, they just 
throw it away and come up with their own numbers.
  The stakes here couldn't be more serious for that constituent and the 
3,000 others who walked into my office in Waterbury, Connecticut. This 
isn't a game to them. It's a matter of life and death. And the stakes 
over repeal could not be higher.

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