House Proceeding 10-27-09 on Oct 27th, 2009 :: 2:48:15 to 2:49:35
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Jo Ann Emerson: don't want to reform, health care. -- want to reform health care. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from missouri rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revi the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. emerson: mr. speaker, health care reform the congress for the better part

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Speech By: Jo Ann Emerson

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Jo Ann Emerson: of a year now and we are finally getting to the core of this debate -- cost. without an affordable system of health care we'll forever have problems with access. but too many good bipartisan proposals to lower costs have been eliminating international barriers to market access for u.s. consumers. speeding new generics to market.

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Jo Ann Emerson: promoting comparative effectiveness research, and better decisionmaking tools for doctors and their patients. you may ask why? it is real simple. the administration made an $80 billion deal with the big drug companies that prevents us from offering our proposals to save medicine. our constituents who often have

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Jo Ann Emerson: trouble paying for their medicines today will continue subsidizing the people from other countries who pay half of what we do for the same drugs. so this $80 billion deal actually makes more money for the big drug companies because it will encourage more take brand name pill instead of begin nay,, increasing the