House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 7:09:00 to 7:12:05
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Roy Blunt: have met legislate. the speaker pro tempore: gentleman from michigan. three minutes to the gentleman from missouri, mr. blunt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. members will take seats or

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Speech By: Roy Blunt

7:09:21 to 7:09:41( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: leave the chamber thank the gentleman for yielding. and the republican congresses did send important parts of this plan, the house to the other body. we sent lawsuit abuse reform seven times. we sent associated health least half a dozen times. they didn't get to the we continue to send the

7:09:42 to 7:10:03( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: elements of this every taxpayer money and also save every insured american money. this is the only plan that reduces the cost of for every group of insured americans. one of the goals that the pres rerm was to reduce the cost of premiums.

7:10:04 to 7:10:24( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: this is the only plan that does that. it does it for individuals. it does it for small businesses. it does it for large groups. this is a plan where we can provide access to coverage for everyone regardless of pre-existing conditions. we don't spend $1.3 trillion to do that.

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Roy Blunt: we spend about $23 billion to make the risk and insure everybody. we are for access for everybody fo coverage. we are just not for spending $1 trillion to create that access. thisn lowers premiums, it prohibits insurance companies

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Roy Blunt: from canceling policies, it prohibits insurance companies from capping the expenditures that those policies might occur. one of the reasons that people have their -- there are more people uninsured at the end of 10 years under this plan is when our friends on the other side insisted on the children's

7:11:07 to 7:11:27( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: health insurance plan, they put everybody that goes on that plan in back into no insurance in the last five years. look at the numbers. that's where those numbers go up. you can pretend our plan puts the numbers up. we are not the one that said we are going to insure all children for five years and the

7:11:28 to 7:11:48( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: in the second five years they are back to where they are today. check the nu premiums. look what this does for families. look whathis does for individuals. this is a plan keep what works and fix what's broken. the president repeatedly has said, everyone if you like what

7:11:49 to 7:12:06( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: you have you should be able to keep it. this is the only plan that would allow that pledge to be made. and be kt. mr. speaker, i encoura colleagues to support this plan. let's take these first steps that work without