House Proceeding 07-16-09 on Jul 16th, 2009 :: 1:29:25 to 1:32:00
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1:29:25 to 1:29:46( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: on over to congressman hall. mr. hall: thank you, congressman ellison. i'll tell you a brief story about my mother, who was on a trip to the slovak republic with my dad and my brother, the priest. going back to see her great garntes' hometown and -- great

1:29:25 to 1:32:00( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: John Hall

1:29:47 to 1:30:09( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: grandparents' hometown. as she was leaving a restaurant, she turned around to say good-bye,? slovak, by the way, and she tripped and fellown the stairs of the restaurant and broke her right femur below the hip. it was too much pain for her to get on an airplane to fly back to the united states and have her leg repaired here.

1:30:10 to 1:30:31( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: so she went into a hospital in a little town in what was scheck slovakia when her real -- czechoslovakia when her relatives lived there a post-soviet country that most americans probably think of as a backward nation. she went there, spent two week, had pins put in through the

1:30:32 to 1:30:53( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: marrow of her leg to hold the bones in alignment, had a plate put in the side of it, screws put in, it's an elaborate operation, spent two weeks in the hospital, at the end of that time, my father went down to the office of the hospital and asked if he could pay the bill because they were leaving to get on the plane to go home.

1:30:54 to 1:31:14( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: and the administrator said, what bill? send us a postcard, tell her to do her exercises and have a good trip. now i'm not sure we're going to be able to do that, you know, certainly not for, you know, every visitor to this country, but we ought to certainly try

1:31:15 to 1:31:35( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: to d for those who can't afford it. for people who can afford it, y for it. people who can afford the insurance, buy it. for those who can't afford it because they're at or below the poverty level, we have found ways and are still adjust waying -- adjusting ways to do that.

1:31:36 to 1:31:58( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: for the first time in this country we'll do what israel, canada, the slovak republic, sweden, holland, france, taiwan, you can go down the list oall of our allies and all industrialized, developed countries in the world, what they do for their citizens, that's make sure that every one of them can go to bet at night

1:31:59 to 1:32:00( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: and have that certainty, not