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Senate Amendments To H.R. 3590, Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act Of 2009, And H.R. 4872, Health Care And Education Reconciliation Act Of 2010

Floor Speech

Date: March 21, 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care Education

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Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, they called it ``a dangerous device invented in Nazi Germany'' and a "method of imposing Stalinism.'' Those were the statements made by the opponents of Medicare, Medicare that now provides health coverage to 45 million Americans.

This legislation will ensure that 32 million more Americans have access to affordable health care and that no American is held hostage to the abusive practices of the insurance industry.

As in 1965, we have the rhetoric of mass distortions. This morning, Republican Leader Boehner even said this bill means Armageddon. The day after this legislation is signed by President Obama, Americans will see the world is not coming to an end, that there are no death panels. They will begin to see a system that works for them, not the insurance industry who is spending millions of dollars to kill the bill.

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