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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 27, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

Health Care

Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about an issue of great importance--health care. The potential bill before us should concern all Americans. While I have numerous issues with this bill, I will highlight two.

The first is abortion. There is no language to exclude abortion coverage in this bill. An overwhelming majority of Americans are against Federal tax dollars paying for abortion; yet this bill opens the door to do just that.

Second, cuts to our seniors. This bill is paid for out of the pockets of our seniors, with $162 billion coming from Medicare Advantage, a plan millions of our American seniors, including 17,000 in my district, enjoy.

Mr. Speaker, we can do better than this. Let us not pass a bill that could harm our most vulnerable, our infants, and our elderly.


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