[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5816]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     HELPING SICK AMERICANS NOW ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the House will begin discussing in the 
next day the legislation called Helping Sick Americans Now Act, and I 
would only offer a counter to that that it seems a sick way to try and 
help those who are in need.
  This bill will deplete the healthy preventive care funding that 
impacts the Centers for Disease Control, that impacts the federally 
qualified health clinics that are all throughout our community, and it 
only provides funding for the sickest of Americans up until December 
2013. Why don't we encourage the Governors, like Governor Perry of 
Texas, to accept expanded Medicaid to help heal 6 million and provide 
health care for 6 million uninsured in Texas, the highest number of 
uninsured in any State.
  This is a temporary fix that is not necessary. We have the Affordable 
Care Act that is being implemented; and, as we speak, millions of 
Americans are being covered. This is the wrong way, misdirected, and I 
might say it is a sick way of trying to help the sickest of Americans.
  I oppose the bill.

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