Senate Proceeding on Oct 28th, 2009 :: 9:39:50 to 9:42:00
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Speech By: Tom Udall

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Tom Udall: existence and point away where they're going to get insurance, they're going to get help for their families. that we're at the right place, the right time. things have aligned. we've got president obama, we've got a democratic senate, we've got a democratic house, and we

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Tom Udall: need to get this done in this time period we're in. we're nowhere -- we know we're going to be opposed. our friends on the other side, they're going to do the same thing that -- that you mentioned on unemployment benefits, they're going to stand up and use every trick in the book. they're going to use all these filibuster rules, they're going to make us file everything, but we're going to have to stay here

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Tom Udall: long nights, we're going to have to stay through to the end so that we can help the individuals like we've been talking about here have insurance, regardless what their personal circumstances are, regardless of things like preexisting condions and serious illnesses and getting dropped by insurance companies.

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mr. whitehouse: if i could add another eleme to responding to the question, they may very well be eligible for medicaid or med case, in which case they would go on to those programs. but if not, they would very likely be eligible under this

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health care reform for a significant subsidy to help them pay for health insurance. and what's interesting about the way that works is that they don't have to go into a government program to get the subsidy. we're trying to make health insurance more available to more middle-class families, and so

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what you do is you go to the health insurance exchange, which is like a market for health insurance, or if you work for a big company or if you work for the state or government, there is a period where you go and you sign up for the health insurance that you want. your h.r. person says, okay, now's the time to choose your

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pocy for the coming year and they give you your choices and you select from your choices. and you have a labor agreement or a contract agreement or a statutory provision that lets you know how much your employer is going to contribute. but you get to choose, just like the federal employee health benefits plan that we're all in

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and that all federal employees are in. and that's the model. so that somebody who is -- can't afford the insurance that they want will get their stipend from the government and tn they'll go to the exchange, and then they'll be able to choose -- and that's why it's called a public option. if there's a public option in