[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 405]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BUSTING MYTHS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, thank you so very much. I look 
forward to working with you.
  It's time to bust a number of myths. It's time to really tell the 
Americans the truth. As we begin another series of 5-hour debates on 
repealing a life-saving initiative, it's really time to tell the truth. 
Maybe it's time to tell the truth about this senior citizen, who had 
pneumonia and didn't know she had it. But if she had not had ``a 
government-run health system,'' Medicare, she wouldn't be laying up in 
a sophisticated medical facility, providing her with the opportunity to 
live. Any of you know about pneumonia--walking pneumonia can kill you. 
It killed my grandfather, who did not have access to this quality 
health care because he did not have Medicare.
  It's time to bust the myths. It's time to tell our physicians that 
Democrats worked hard to build up your reimbursement. We were the 
leaders on it. This has nothing to do with the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act, because as this bill grows with research dollars, 
we also have the opportunity, with the President, to work on 
reimbursement. This bill is a bill to save lives. And those in Texas 
know it, Mr. Speaker, because the Texas insurance agency said it is a 
good bill.

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