Over 100 Days Waiting For A Republican Plan

Floor Speech

Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because it has been more than 100 days since my friend and colleague, Representative Roy Blunt, the point man for the rumored Republican alternative health reform plan, said, I guarantee you we will provide you with a bill.

Even Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal urged his party Tuesday to work with Democrats to offer health care solutions.

The time to act on health insurance reform is now. We must act to offer the choice of affordable quality health care to all Americans putting you and your doctor, not the insurance companies, in charge of your health care while we reduce the problem of ballooning health care costs on American families, businesses, and our fiscal future.

``No'' is not a solution. Saying you support reform with no evidence of that support and no plan just doesn't cut it. Continuing to say ``no'' to reform leaves tens of millions of Americans without health insurance, and 45,000 Americans die every year because of this.

Our friends on the other side of the aisle can't run away from the fact that they have no plan.

The time to act on health insurance reform is now.

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