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Barney Frank: they ah good i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, at this time i yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. frank, for the purpose of colloquy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. frank: i thank the chairman. i congratulate him for the excellent work he and others have done on this bill. and i want t

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Barney Frank: importance of the bill in addressing hard to reach communities, including commercial fishermen who aren impo constituency, but also farmers and ranchers. ranchers tend to be a less important part of my constituency. we are create agnew health insurance marketplace and requiring health coverage which i support. this makes it particularly important to educate those that haven't had

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Barney Frank: mr. waxman: yes. the bill shows the commissioners business administration. mr. frank: i thank the chairman for clarifying these points. section 2229 of the senate bill recognizes the unique health care educational outreacneeds

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Joseph R. Pitts: elective abortions using federal funds drawn om a federal treasury account. the provision has been build as a so-called compromise amendment. but this bill will radically expand current and long-standing federal policy with respect to abortion. currently there's not a single government health care program that provides coverage for elective abortion, not schip,

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Kathy Castor: smith, kaptur amendment that would prevent federal funding of abortion in this bill. i thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from florida, member of o castor. the speaker pro tempore: the gent one minute. ms. castor: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, democrats will now deliver on what american

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Kathy Castor: families and businesses have been asking for when it their health. one meaningful secure and stable insurance, two, improved medicare for seniors. three, vital consumer protections. for families with health insurance, health reform will provide you with coverage you can count on. families will no longer have to worry about insurance companies canceling their coverage because

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Kathy Castor: meaningful, stable, and secure. and for our family members who rely on medicare, you will see immediate improvements in your prescriptions, checkups, and measures i worked on to penalize unscrupulous practices of private medicare insurance agents. the meaningful health reform

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Cynthia Lummis: whether it makes sense for them or not. this bill will dump some of my constituents into a government-run health care program to which members of congress will not even subject themselves. i sought an amendment that would allow states to shield their citizens from government forced

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Cynthia Lummis: our constitution was designed to empower the american people and shackle the federal government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mrs. lummis: this bill will shackle the american people e empowering the federal government. in wyoming, mr. speaker. i yield back. mr. waxman: i yld to

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the rules of the house. mr. waxman: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. murphy, who has been a leader in our efforts to lower growth in premiums through measures such immediate review and justification of an insurer rate increase. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman.

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Patrick Murphy: kicked off his plan after being diagnosed with lou gehrig's disease. i urge a yes vote for our fellow americans who want secure, affordable health insurance who can't be taken away from them when they need it most. 16 years have passed since we last tried to reform health care. premiums have more than doubled. every day in the state of

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Patrick Murphy: pennsylvania, 510 families are kicked off their coverage. that's every single day. mr. chairman, as i said proud blog democrat and there is universal agreement that many to get our country's fiscal house back in order we must first get our health care spending under control. and this bill does just that. it actually reduces our deficit

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Patrick Murphy: in conference to do everything we can to make coverage affordable for the american people. mr. murphy: i urge my colleague to vote yes the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. barton: i want to recognize

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Lee Terry: medicare and medicaid. and imposes mandates on states by expanding medicaid which w then trickle down and force the states and the localities to have to increase taxes, really masking true cost of this massive $1.2 trillion bill.

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Chris Murphy: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: i yield one minute connecticut, mr. murphy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. chairman. every night in my state thousands of kids go to sleep sick in their bed just because their mother can't afford to get them to a doctor. this is the most affluent, most compassionate nation in the

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Chris Murphy: world and it makes no sense that our health care system is the inefficient, m the world. but the changes we don't need to throw out what we got. despite all this nonsense, political speak from the republicans about government takeovers, this bill -- to reset the rules of the private health care marketplace so it starts working again like it should.

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Chris Murphy: most powerful in the world, didn't have the courage t him well.

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Mike Rogers: the 85% of americans who have earned their health care in this bill. not only will they get longer wait times, more expensive premiums, but at the end of that with new debts of $1.5 trillion in new spending 18 million americans won't have coverage. but more importantly, there ll be there's nothing more safer than the bo between a mother and a

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Mike Rogers: commissions, their comparative effectiveness research allows the government to force government insurance to ration and deny care. you have violated the most important trust, the most important thing that w the building block and the foundation of the values of this country. that mother, that doctor knows what's best for that child. you will find no compassion in

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John T. Salazar: strong rejection and the protection of that bond between doctor andatient and mother the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from colorado, mr. salazar. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. salazar: mr. speaker, i am especially pleased that this bill will help rural america.

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John T. Salazar: currently, physicians in rural areas are reimbursed less for medicare than their urban counterparts. h.r. 3962 will rume bu primary care physicians in rural areas, not only to equalize the disparity but to make rural communities more attractive to physicians. most of my district is considered a health professional shoage area. in my district in colorado, we have three counties with only

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Steve Scalise: families pay for their insurance. and it is time to fix it now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. barton: mr. speaker, i want to recognize from the pelican state, a member of the committee, congressman scalise of new orleans for one mine. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one

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Steve Scalise: minute. mr. scalise: i want to thank the ranking member from texas for yielding. i rise in opposition to speaker pelosi's 1,990-page government takeover of health care. weighing in at nearly 20 pounds, this bill comes out to over $530 per page. and where does this bill spend that money?

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Steve Scalise: if you make less than $250,000 a year you won't pay any new taxes, and i quote, not a dime. in this bill there's over $20 billion of taxes, new taxes, just on people who have no insurance. the president have said multiple times if you like what you have you can keep it. unfortunately, this bill fails the president's promise because it allows the health care czar

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Betty Sue Sutton: even if you like it. it's so bad that even when we brought our amendment that says all members of congress have to abide by this bill, they actually refused a vote on this amendment. we need to defeat this legislation and do real reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair would announce that the gentleman from texas has 11 1/2 minutes remaing. the gentleman from california 6

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Betty Sue Sutton: 1/4. mr. waxman: yield one minute to a member of our committee, the gentlelady from ohio, betty sutton. the speaker pro tempore: the ge one minute. american people have been waiting for this day, a day that we will finally pass a health care bill that will work for and with them, that will

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Betty Sue Sutton: caps on coverage on accessing care they need just when they need it the most. today, we ask to improve the employer-based coverage for 420,000 residents in my district, and to improve medicare for 107,000 beneficiaries, and to move to close the prescription drug doughnut hole for seniors across this country. yes, mr. speaker, the american

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Betty Sue Sutton: chair is shocked. the gentleman from texas has 11 1/2 minutes remaing. the gentman from california has 5 1/4 minutes remaining. mr. barton: thank you, mr.

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Michael C. Burgess: eye could see and the antitrust relief. after all, we are going to ask our doctors to be part of the brave new world of health care reform. the least we can do is talk amongst themselves about the best way to deliver high-quality care at low cost. but what happened? antitrust, not in this bill. s.g.r., we'll take this up some point in the future. medical liability, a smidgen of

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when this was enacted.

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gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, for unanimous consent request i yield to the gentleman from iowa, mr. boswell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. boswell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks to support this bill and people in my district are waiting and so is my state and our co yield one minute to the

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employer insurance across th country. mr. waxman: will the gentleman yield? yes, that is a correct statement. mr. pierluisi: the prena postnatal care pierriello: the prenatal and postnatal care is included? mr. waxman: will the gentleman yield? yes, you are correct in this statement.