House Proceeding 09-10-09 on Sep 10th, 2009 :: 1:18:00 to 1:22:30
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Lynn C. Woolsey: progressive movement because, you know, we're also in -- all in this ting together. i yield back to the gentlelady. ms. woolsey: what day was it? well, it was a sunday in the city of sonoma. i was presented with -- that's a list of names, that is very impressive, but i was presented

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Speech By: Lynn C. Woolsey

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Lynn C. Woolsey: with petitions like that and i was so proud. i barely could hold them because they were so heavy. so, let's talk about important to have a public option. mr. ellison: absolutely. ms. woolsey: i think it's time that we srt repeating the value and the need for a public

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Lynn C. Woolsey: option. because we get criticized that a public option will cost blah, blah. the public option absolutely saves money. and the reason it does, there's -- the same level of overhead, like medicare or

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Lynn C. Woolsey: because there's no marketing fees, there are no high paid gures and there's no shareholders that have to be paid on their stock. so it saves money. the other thing it does, it

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Lynn C. Woolsey: provides competition to the private health care industry. health insurance industry. and why is that important? well, without competition the rates soar and they have been over the years to a point where if it continues, right now

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Lynn C. Woolsey: out of every $6 goes to health care in in this country and that number is going to grow so quickly and we will be so embarrassed and in so much trouble that we'll know that we made a huge mistake. we don't want to make that mistake. the other thing -- and you know about competition, let's talk

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Lynn C. Woolsey: about competion just a minute. the president last night said only about 5% of americans would opt into the public option. well, i truly believe it would be more than that, butt first it might be, you know, and it needs to prove itself and become just a very viable health care

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Lynn C. Woolsey: provider, which it will be if it's robust like we but if it's only 5% overall, why are the private insurance companies so worried? they do not want a public

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Lynn C. Woolsey: option. and they don't want any competition and they know that this is the competion they really don't want because it will prove itself over time and more and more people will indeed select the public option when

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Lynn C. Woolsey: they have that choice. public option provides, and i know you're going to be able to add more, but security, security for people who are covered on plans by their employers today. one of the big

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Lynn C. Woolsey: there is 85%, 75% of all their employer. and they like the coverage. well, you know, they might, they might not. but they are not certain that that coverage will last.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: and there's a pl, the that show can't remember exactly, i think 68%, something like that, the people who have insurance feel insecure on whether that insurance will be available to them for as long as they will need it. and certainly they can't feel

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Lynn C. Woolsey: secure if they lose their job or if they want to take a or if their employer decides, i can't afford to cover my employees anymore. and we want the public option to be one of the choices they have