House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 6:37:50 to 6:40:50
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John F. Tierney: substitute that will lower health care premiums. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair would remind members not to traffic the well when another member is the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. tierney, member of the committee. the speaker pr gentleman is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes.

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Speech By: John F. Tierney

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John F. Tierney: mr. tierney: since 1995 when our republican colleagues held the majority in the house of reesentatives until 2007 when they relinquished that and the voters threw them out, they had conexactly nothing, nothing with respect -- exactly nothing, nothing with respect to the health care now they want to come in and do something. they want you to pay less for

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John F. Tierney: getting less. the one thing they tried to do in 2003 was put pharmaceutical prescription drugs in medicare giving seniors a so-called doughnut hole they had to pay for and costing us $600 billion on our current debt. my friends, the only ones they made happy then were the pharmaceutical companies and

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John F. Tierney: the only ones they want to make happy now are private insu they want to try to kill reform that they can't kill reform gift of a republican substitute. while they sat idle since 1995, family health insurance policies rose from 7% of medium income to 17%. 60% of families reporting

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John F. Tierney: bankruptcies did so in because of health care cost. 46 million americans went unin 85% of those in working families. small business premiums went up 129%. 28 million of our uninsured are small business owners, employees, or their small businesses are projected

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John F. Tierney: to $52.1 billion going forward in the next decade if we continue und the republican path of do nothing. the question is whose on our side? who is on e side of the consumers, individuals, small businesses, and the families. that is the bill that the democrat to put forward on this floor. it is affordable, it is health care for every american. if you compare the two bills, you'll see the congressional

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John F. Tierney: budget office says the republicans may, may save you from zero to 3% on 80% of the private premiums. the democratic bill saves you 12%. the democratic bill covers 96% of americans. the republicans in 2019 will leave you exactly where you are today, covering only 83% of the

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John F. Tierney: people. leaving by that time 52 million uninsured. we'll end discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. they'll study it. we'll have an exchange for small business employees so they get better price, comparable to what large companies have now been able to get. they'll do nothing of the kind except let you shop for a place to get your

6:40:39 to 6:40:50( Edit History Discussion )

John F. Tierney: might cost you less because you get less. you'll be able to have a race to the bottom where insurance companies will be able to avoid consumer protections of and have factors fraud almost