House Proceeding 09-30-09 on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 2:21:45 to 2:25:20
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Patrick Murphy: order for them not to strangled, not to be strapped, not to force -- be forced to go bankrupt. i'd like to yid to my friend right across the border in pennsylvania. >> i thank the gentleman from ohio. i sat with the gentleman and listened to a group before us, and i couldn't help but think

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Speech By: Patrick Murphy

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Patrick Murphy: about the fact that they seemed to miss the fact that, i would agree the worst possible thing we could do in health care reform as a congress is to pass a bill that makes the system worse. we're capable of doing that we're not going to do that. but that would be the worst possible outcome, but a very

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Patrick Murphy: close cond is to do nothing. becausthe gentleman from ohio talked about businesses and families in this country struggle every day with the decisions relating t of health care. i've -- in visiting my district recently, i had the opportunity to speak to the rotely club in my disict.

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Patrick Murphy: a business owner came up to me afterwards, showed me his health insurance statements, his annual increas last four years. the smallest increase he experienced was 28%. that was the smallest increase he had. he told me, i can't do this anymore. i can't afford health care.

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Patrick Murphy: i'm going to have to tell my 12 employees this week that i have to drop them. he couldn't offer health care anymore. that's unacceptable in america. that's what's going to continue to happen if we sit back and do nothing while the cost of health care continues to rise two and three times the rate of inflation every single yea i had a woman come up to me at

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Patrick Murphy: don't you dare take my money to pay for those people who don't have health care. because, she said, i worked hard for everything i have and those people aren't, that's too bad. that's their problem. -- problem. i'm not worried about them. i've worked to put myself in position to provide for my family.

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Patrick Murphy: forget about those people. that's not my problem. i'm not paying for them. i said, here's the issue. you are paying for them. they show up at the hospital they get treated, and the hospital sends the bill to us. that's how that works. around this woman who came to this event to fight, she wanted to take me on, when i said

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Patrick Murphy: that, she softened and she said, you know, it's so funny you say that, because i just had a procedure done at the hospital in february and the insurance company denied part of my claim and i had to $18,000 out of pocket. so she went through the bill very closely because she was the one paying the money and she called the hospital and she

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Patrick Murphy: said, why does everything on this bill cost more than it should? why does an aspirin cost $10? and the hospital told her, well, that's because we have so many people that come through all, we have to shift those costs to the people who can pay. so therefore, everything on the bill costs five times more than

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Patrick Murphy: it should. similarly, i had a gentleman