House Proceeding 07-28-09 on Jul 28th, 2009 :: 2:16:55 to 2:18:10
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Speech By: Rodney P. Frelinghuysen

2:17:13 to 2:17:33( Edit History Discussion )

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen: care the next few days, it would be very instructive to answer the question just who are the uninsured? the most recent census bureau report of 2,000 stad there are roughly 46 million people in the country labeled as uninsured. 9.5 million were noncitizens. 18 million were between the ages of 18 and 30.

2:17:34 to 2:17:54( Edit History Discussion )

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen: 12 million people had household incomes less than $25,000 which means they already qualify for existing public health care programs. 7.3 million had annual incomes higher than health coverage within their own financial reach. and 9.1 million were uninsured for less than one year.

2:17:55 to 2:18:11( Edit History Discussion )

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen: and half of these people regained their health coverage within four months. this leaves 7.8 million lower income americans who can be characterized as the long-term uninsured. yet the majority is promising a trillion dollar legislation that