House Proceeding 03-18-10 on Mar 18th, 2010 :: 1:01:30 to 1:06:50
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Carolyn McCarthy: all i wanted it to be butt is a darn good start. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. baldwin: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. smith of new jersey. the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. mccarthy, is now recognized for five minutes. mrs. mccarthy: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank lynn woolsey and my colleagues here that came out tonight to speak about the

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Speech By: Carolyn McCarthy

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Carolyn McCarthy: issues that are going to be in this bill as we go forward for a vote some time this weekend. you know, as many of us have talked about health care for years, i mean, i'm talking about years, i think all the time when we go out to dinner or anything, health care always comes up.

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Carolyn McCarthy: so when i hear charges against, you know, this side of the aisle that, why are we rushing through this? let me tell you something, i've been in congress going into my 14th year. before that i was a nurse for over 30 years. so when i came to congress, the first thing i started working on

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Carolyn McCarthy: is how can we improve health care? and this day is coming. unfortunately there's been an awful lot of information over the last several months that really is quite wrong. and a lot of my friends say, well, why aren't the democrats speaking up? i guess it's because, and i'll speak for myself, many of us

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Carolyn McCarthy: have been speaking up but unfortunately because we're not yelling and screaming we're not heard. so, what i'm going to explain to many, hopefully, people that are listening to this i just want to tell you how this bill is going to help my district back on long island. you know, i live in a middle

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Carolyn McCarthy: class suburban area, i've been there for 62 years living in the same house, it was the house of my parents. my family grew up there and i went to the public schools there, my son went to the same schools that i went to and in some cases had the same teachers. and we also had the same doctors.

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Carolyn McCarthy: and i have to say, going back to those days, you know, we had a great family physician. today he would be called a primary care physician. and yet we're seeing a shortage of primary care physicians across this nation. we're also going to see a shortage of nurses across this nation. those are two components that we

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Carolyn McCarthy: have to make sure that we have in the health care bill. but just in my district alone it's going to improve coverage for 444,000 residents who already have health care. how can that be? well, they're certainly going to have pre-conditions taken away so that when they go to the doctor a they find out they

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Carolyn McCarthy: have a pre-condition and they find out some of these pre-conditions, which, i'll tell you, it's outrageous. do you know if you're a woman of childbearing years getting pregnant is a pre-existing condition, a pre-existing condition.

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Carolyn McCarthy: i have young people in my staff that have pre-existing conditions. what are they? well, apparently one went to a doctor and was being treated for asthma. he has a pre-existing condition. my grandchildren since they were

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Carolyn McCarthy: very, very young have had bronchitis, a lot of kids get bronchitis, ear infections, a lot of kids get ear infections, pre-existing conditions. these are things we want to make sure the insurance companies -- you know, we're

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Carolyn McCarthy: not the bad guys here. i think that needs to be understood. we're not the bad guys. it's what we've let the insurance companies do over the years that is unfortunately a disgrace. you know, we're going to give tax credits and other assistance, up to 82,000 families in my district and

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Carolyn McCarthy: 23,000 small businesses to help them afford coverage. it's important that you hear this about small businesses. a small business, if they have two or three men, you know, in the company, and then a woman that they want to hire to fill a position, and they happen to offer health care insurance,

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Carolyn McCarthy: once that woman is hired their rates are going to go higher. their rates will go up higher. why? because it is discr against women on getting their health care. and that is wrong. that is something that we're going to change. medicare. i hear from my seniors all the time, especially for the seen

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Carolyn McCarthy: quors that are sing -- for the seniors that are single, widowed, don't have much except medicare and social security. we're going to take care of 102,000 of them.