[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WE NEED TO SAVE RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, before leaving my district, I had the 
great excitement of presiding over or introducing a new medical center 
to the Acres Homes community and to the community of Houston, the UMC 
Center, organized by committed and dedicated doctors. This facility is 
formerly the Doctor's Hospital Tidwell in historic Acres Homes 
community.
  The real value and significance are two things. One, Americans need 
access to good health care. With the Affordable Care Act, we have been 
able to sizably bring down the 25 percent of Texans who are uninsured. 
We have been able to expand with community health clinics.
  For those States who have accepted the expanded Medicaid, which 
includes Ohio under Governor Kasich, a former Member of this body, and, 
as well, the State of Kentucky, they have seen a sizable dent in those 
who are uninsured.
  I want to thank those doctors working with me and working with the 
Texas Department of State Health Services, the U.S. Department of 
Health, recognizing that an inner-city hospital, a hospital dealing 
with those aged populations and children and young families, is 
valuable to save. We need to save Riverside Hospital.
  I want to congratulate those doctors, and we will work together to be 
able to provide good health care for all of the community.

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