[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Illinois (Danny K. Davis) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I believe that Obama 
does, in fact, care, and that care is evidenced by the fact that we 
passed the most major piece of health legislation that we have done 
since the mid-1960s, since Medicare and Medicaid.
  So it's amazing to me that I continue to hear colleagues in both the 
House and the Senate who are attempting to deny the existence of this 
legislation, legislation that was passed by both Houses of Congress, 
signed into law by the President of the United States of America, 
upheld by the Supreme Court, which says that it is indeed 
constitutional, and still there are colleagues trying to deny the 
existence of this law. That is amazing.

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  As a matter of fact, it's real. It's passed. It's been affirmed. And 
it's going to stay.
  My county government, Cook County government, has already, with a 
waiver, signed up more than 100,000 people, just waiting to get 
enrolled into its county care program--100,000 people, none of whom 
will have to worry about preexisting conditions; 100,000 people in Cook 
County, none of whose children under 26 will have to worry about having 
health insurance coverage because they can have it on their parents' 
policies; 100,000 people, none of whom will have to worry about running 
out of benefits; 100,000 people in Cook County, one county, who will 
have their own primary care physician, who will be able to see a doctor 
and go to the clinic on a regular basis.
  But that's nothing compared to the more than 30 million people in 
this country who, for the first time in their lives, will have health 
insurance coverage. I hear all of the discussions about the negative 
impact. Well, you ask a person in need of health care who has never 
been able to get it how much of a ``negative impact'' it's going to 
have on them.
  I agree that the Senate has passed a continuing resolution which does 
not fund the government for the extended period of time that we'd like 
to see and need to see. But I can tell you, I would rather have that 
than to have people worrying and wondering whether they're going to be 
able to see a doctor when they need to see one or go to the hospital or 
take their child to a regular doctor rather than having to go to the 
emergency room.
  So I would urge my colleagues, let's be in agreement with the Senate. 
And let's move right now, today--and if not today, tomorrow--to pass a 
continuing resolution that keeps our government funded.

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