House Proceeding 07-27-09 on Jul 27th, 2009 :: 0:19:30 to 0:25:05
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Speech By: Barbara Lee

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Barbara Lee: . i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: ms. lee of california. ms. lee: thank you. the speaker pro tempe: the gentlelady is represented for five minutes. mr. lee: lie thank you. i rise to speak on the urgent issue of -- ms. lee: thank you. issue of health care reform.

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Barbara Lee: the congressional black caucus and congresswoman marcia fudge from ohio, will be holding another special order on health reform. although i won't be able to join my colleagues tonight, i did want to come to the floor and add my voice to the chorus of members from the congressional black caucus who are calling for real health care reform now. i want to begin by commending my

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Barbara Lee: danny davis who co-chairs the c.b.c.'s health and wellness task force, the two of them have developed a very important set of requirements to ensure that real health care reform becomes the order of the day. so i just want to thank them for their leadership and just know that the congressional black caucus supports what they have put together with all of the

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Barbara Lee: input of the c.b.c. let me just begin by saying that we have is said over and over again that we want to ensure that there is a strong public health option linked to medicare providers -- option. linked to medicare providers, this requirement must remain in tact in the final bill. we believe we must continue to

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Barbara Lee: work to get this done as quickly as possible. that meents hopefully we can do this before we recess this week. the $47 -- 47 million deserve this. this means again we must pass a bill this week before we adjourn for the august recess. the congressional black caucus believes that a bill that was --

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Barbara Lee: that is less than $1 trillion that's completely paid for, that's budget-neutral, would likely compromise many of the provisions that are important to are uninsured. this is unacceptable. we believe t bill must have a cost of $1 trillion. there's no reason to consider a bill ls costly.

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Barbara Lee: the c.b.c. stands firmly behind an original request that we made a long -- along with the congressional hispanic caucus and the congressional asian pacific american caucus to include specific health disparity provisions from the tricaucus bill which i believe is h.r. 3090, the health equity and accountability act.

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Barbara Lee: we want these provisions in the final health reform bill. the tricaucus has worked on a comprehensive bill to eliminate health disparities for the last eight years. we believe that we have a very good bill and we're pleased that many of the provisions in our health care reform bill are included now ait relates to

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Barbara Lee: health and ethnic and racial disparities. the c.b.c. considers the provisions on children's health prevention services and mental health and substance abuse critical to this bill and they should not be compromised in the final product. we must ensu that we guarantee true parity for mental health and comprehensive coverage

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Barbara Lee: these dish payments to help cover their operating costs. we shouldn't be penalizing these hospitals because ultimately they will affect their ability to provide access and care to low income populations. and finally the congressional black caucus strongly believes that we can realize a host of savings from a variety of

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Barbara Lee: benefit of everyone. we shupet try and recapture those savings and use them to strengthen -- excuse me, we should try to recapture those savings and use them to strengthen thesome. last week president obama reminded us all of the important work th we must do. and we must do it now. we must reject claims that the cost of reforming health care in

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Barbara Lee: america is something our nation can't afford. to the contrary, if we fail to act and if we fail to act now we do so at the peril of the