House Proceeding 05-18-09 on May 18th, 2009 :: 0:58:20 to 1:04:25
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Robert C. Scott: ms. fudge: i yield to my colleague, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott. mr. scott: i thank the gentlelady from ohio for organizing this opportunity for us to discuss health care. access to quality affordable health care is critical to the well-being of all americans today and in the future. we are seeing millions of

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Speech By: Robert C. Scott

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Robert C. Scott: americans suffering from illnesses that could have been prevented with basic health care but people didn't seehealth care because they didn't have insurance. 46 million americans lack health insurance and tens of millions more lack health coverage during some part of the year. in these tough economic times,

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Robert C. Scott: we must seek to universal health care and must seek to reduce the cost of health care insurance especially for children and pregnant women. we also must address other health concerns, such as the health disparity that exists between racial and ethnic minorities and the need to fund

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Robert C. Scott: research for diseases and strengthen the medicaid and medicare systems and give patients the tools. only action on these critical issues can we meet the pressing health care needs of our nation. providing health care for all and reducing the cost of health care will relieve the financial

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Robert C. Scott: strain on all businesses. it will go a long way to addressing the racial disparity because minorities as already has been said are less likely to be covered by health insurance than others. on child health, one of the first actions of this congress was the passage of the

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Robert C. Scott: children's health insurance program, the schip where we were able to provide coverage plus an additional four million more. while this was a good step in the right direction, it is not enough, because five million children are still left without health insurance.

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Robert C. Scott: that's why i introduced legislation that would provide health insurance for all children, the all healthy children act, which was endorsed by the children's defense fund, is a logical, achievable next step to closing the gap. this proposal would ensure that all children and pregnant women are covered by expanding the

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Robert C. Scott: coverage of both medicaid and the schip program while eliminating the red tape that prevents them from being covered by either program. this program would cover all basic health care coverage and mental health, prenatal and well child care. mr. speaker, our health care

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Robert C. Scott: system is unfortunately riddled with inefficiencies and excessive administrative expenses, inflated prices, poor management and inappropriate care and waste. these problems significantly increase the cost of medical care for health insurance and employers and threaten financial security of our families.

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Robert C. Scott: reforming health care is not going to be easy, but we have a good opportunity now to finally reform the health care system by cutting costs, protecting families from bankruptcy or death because of medical costs and investing in prevention and wellness and improving patient safety and quality of care. we have taken the first step in reforming our health care system

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Robert C. Scott: bypassing a federal budget for fiscal year 2010 that includes more than $630 billion to establish a reserve fund to finance fundamental health care reform that will first bring down health care costs and then expand coverage. the budget does a number of things. it accelerates the adoption of health care information

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Robert C. Scott: technology and expansion of electronic health care records. the budget expands research, comparing the effectiveness of medical search to give patients and physicians better information on what works best. it invests in cancer research as part of the administration's multi-year commitment to double

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Robert C. Scott: cancer research funding. it strengthens the indian health care system with the same health care services for american indians and alaskan natives to address dispities and foster healthy indian communities. it invests $330 million to increase physicians, nurses and

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Robert C. Scott: dentists practicing in areas of the country. it supports families by providing funding for high quality child care, expanding early head start and head start and creating nurse-home visitation programs to support first-time mothers. it strengthens the medicare program by encouraging high

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Robert C. Scott: quality efficient care and improving program integrity and it invests over $1 billion into the food and drug administration for public safety efforts to increase and improve inspections, domestic surveillance, laboratory capacity and initiatives to prevent and control food-borne

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Robert C. Scott: illnesses. mr. speaker, for years we have been at a stale mate in congress and haven't been able to enact real health care reform. we spend more on health care than any other nation. we spend a higher percentage of our g.d.p. and higher amount per capita and yet by any measure, by any of the health indicators,

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Robert C. Scott: we are still in poor health and we still suffer from significant disparities in different parts of our population. so we're already paying for health care, but we need to under the present administration and congress is to finally do more than talk about health care reform and actually do something about it.