Posted on 12/23/2009 1:08:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver
December 23, 2009 Reid: Real People Understand The Urgency For Health Reform
Washington, D.C.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor this afternoon. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
The health care votes we have held this week have been procedural in nature. Each has been a party-line vote. And much of this debate has focused on politics.
But health reform is not about procedure, or partisanship, or politics.
It is about people. People like the thousands who write us every day. A small, small fraction of those letters are right here on my desk.
Each one of these letters represents a story, a tragedy, a life, a death a person. People who wake up every morning and struggle to get health care or struggle to hold on to it. People who lie awake every night second-guessing the agonizing decisions they have to make about what to sacrifice just to stay healthy.
Heres a letter that was written to Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania:
Dear Senator Casey: In a country like the United States, we shouldnt need a tip jar at an ice cream shop to raise money for a kid with leukemia.
Heres what another one of these letters says a plea that a father in North Las Vegas, Nevada sent to me:
Can you imagine what its like to have a doctor look you in the eye while you hold your one-year-old child and tell you that you will likely outlive your son? I am certain my story is not unique. But it is real.
Stop forcing Americans to use the most expensive point of service the emergency room to get what the system wont give them.
Lets make all Americans equal in the eyes of health care. Please.
This is not about the number of pages in this bill. It is about the number of people whom this bill will help.
He was a crooked,lying piece of slime back there as well.
It’s so urgent that most of it doesn’t become effective until 4 years from now.
Nope...amoral.Delusions are a disease of the brain.Amorality is a "disease" of the character.
Real people? This guy is unreal.”
Hitler decided who “real people” were, too.
Assuming he just didn't make that number up on the spur of the moment, which I believe he did, it would be 420,480.
Lots of Dems and Libs and those on the Left pull numbers out of their / thin air ..... remember those 100,000 civilians we killed in Iraq?
I bet he does get thousands of letters telling him he is a piece of crap. And takes the letters of a few “cases” to proclaim health control is for everybody.
I think Dingy Harry was a bed wetter.
What a doofus! Hasn’t he seen the studies that say if a person does have converage they are three times as likely to go to the ER than if they don’t?
Real people are making twig models of Harry Reid’s plane and throwing them into the fireplace.
Real people are going to vote your ass our of office next election.
Harry Reid is channeling Saul Alinsky.
BTW aren’t about 70% of kids now eligable for SCHIP since you can be something like 400% of poverty rate for it now(about $80,000)? Stop your lying Harry real people know the truth when they hear it!
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