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Date:7/31/2009

hers have said, the one way to assure that your premiums will continue to go up and the one way to make sure that you're going to continue to be denied care based on pre-existing conditions or having an insurance company take away a benefit you have paid for when you need it the most, is to support the status quo and do nothing.

Q: [Inaudible. Question on Democrats fighting back in health care message battle in August.]

Congressman Van Hollen. It will and I think what you've seen is you have a lot of allied organizations that support health care reform that are already out there carrying the message and will intensify that message over the next six weeks. AARP, of course, as an organization -- they have endorsed the legislation. The AMA, which was opposed to Medicare back in 1965 -- this time, is again on board in support of this legislation. And I think that if you look at some of the other paid media that people are seeing on television, you see people on board.

At the same time, you've got a lot of misinformation coming out of far right wing radio, talk radio, and other outlets and we need to make sure that we get the message out there through our Members as well as through these allied organizations that support health care reform.

And we're confident that the American people will support this legislation when we come home and we're going to make sure that health care reform does not get swift-voted during the month of August.

Speaker Pelosi. I would only add that I was kind of counting on you all. [Laughter.] I was hoping that you as reporters of the truth would put out the story and dispel the myths scaring seniors as the other side is doing when the AARP is supporting the legislation. Because if you are a senior, you are helped by the bill by closing the donut hole on prescription drugs and making Medicare more solvent and stronger. And if
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