[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, over the course of the last year and a half 
as we worked to pass incredibly important protections to Americans, 
opponents of health care reform continued to try to scare people about 
what we were doing. And now with this vote today, where the Republican 
plan is basically to remove all of those protections that we have 
offered the American public, there are a lot of people out there who 
will think that after the vote today that these protections are going 
to go away.
  So I want to assure the constituents in my district, the Third 
District of Kentucky--almost 300,000 of them with preexisting 
conditions--your protection against discrimination will not go away. 
Those 15,700 small businesses in my district that will now get benefits 
to provide coverage for their employees, don't worry about that vote. 
Those protections are not going to go away.
  For those seniors in the doughnut hole, almost 10,000 in my district 
who have had their prescription drug costs lowered because of what we 
did last year, this vote today will not take them away.
  And as for those 24,000 individuals in my district who will now have 
access to insurance for the first time, the vote today will not take 
them away.

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