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Date:7/31/2009

you are a small business, you will receive tax credits to provide coverage for your employees -- and this in a way that recognizes the special needs of small business. And if you are a person who becomes sick -- many families could escape bankruptcy each year due to unaffordable health benefits, but their needs are addressed in this legislation.

We have given our Members this card to take home, perhaps you have seen it: "Health Insurance Reform to Hold the Insurance Companies Accountable." We urgently need reform and this is available to all of you and it talks about what is in it for the American people -- I've spoken to many of these points already. But there will be a drumbeat across America, a positive drumbeat across America about what this means for the American people. For them individually and their families, for our businesses to be more competitive, for our economy to be dynamic, for our budget to be more in balance by reducing the upward spiral of health care costs having an impact on our entitlements. And it will be done, again, in a fiscally sound way that takes down the curve and again, to dispel the myths that are being put out there.

This is a shock and awe, carpet bombing by the health insurance industry to perpetuate the status quo. A status quo where they don't have to be responsible for anti-trust laws. A status quo where you can't -- did you know that you cannot sue them if they deprive you of a procedure that your doctor and your hospital tell you that you need? But this bill corrects a good deal of that. Doesn't go into the ability to sue, but it goes into the recourse that a person will have.

But make no mistake, facts mean nothing to them, mythology is their game. Misrepresentation is the currency of the realm and we intend to set the record straight. In some places by inoculating against their misrepresentations and in all place by educating as to what this legislation does.

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