Health Care

Floor Speech

Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, when I was home recently, I spoke to a constituent who had lost his job because he had contracted gall bladder cancer. He was using every dime of his unemployment benefits to pay for the treatment necessary to keep him alive.

He is an example of the millions of Americans who have either lost their health care because they got sick and lost their job or the millions more who are just one paycheck or one illness away from losing their own. We have to have an answer for those individuals and for those families.

The Republican strategy of stopping health care reform at no cost provides no answer for the people of this country who have been waiting too long for a solution. It's time for this House to get beyond politics and start to provide real answers for the millions of individuals and families like that gentleman, who has his life put at stake by his lack of health care, and come together. Put politics aside and pass health care reform that will lower costs and expand access for the people of this country.

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