GovTrack: House Record: HEALTH CARE REFORM (111-h20090730-72)

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Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY3]:

Mr. Speaker, we are on the verge of something very significant in this body and in this Congress. I am proud to join my colleagues from the Ways and Means Committee here tonight to talk about the prospects of health care reform in this country. I heard the other day that it was in 1912 that President Teddy Roosevelt first talked about proposing a national health care system for the United States. Today, we're still the only industrialized nation that doesn't have health care for all of its citizens. We believe it's time, almost 100 years later, to try and get this accomplished for the American people. Now, a little earlier, my colleague from Texas--my colleague, friend and classmate from college--talked about polls that are out this week that indicate that the American people have somehow turned against the President in his quest to provide health care reform in this country. But what he didn't mention was the other part of that poll, which said, once people understand what H.R. 3200 does, they overwhelmingly support it.

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