Ms. Mikulski mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Ms. Mikulski mr. President , i ask that the call of the quorum be scraicted. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , what is the pending business before ms. Mikulski mr. President , what is the pending business before the senate . The presiding officer were on the motion to proceed to s. 815. Ms. Mikulski mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to speak 10 minutes as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Mikulski thank you very much. Mr. President , i come to the floor today to really speak about how we could avoid another shutdown of our government and also even more important, avoid another shutdown or slowdown of our economy and thats how we in the congress, both sides of the aisle, both sides of the dome need to work to arrive at a budget agreement and then an appropriations agreement for the rest of the fiscal year. Earlier today on the floor,
Covered next year when obamacare outlaws your policy. The president put secretary sebelius in charge of this law. I have called on her to resign. Ca couldhe internet, r tell you every day how many records elvis was selling, mcdonalds could tell you how many hamburgers were sold. , resident issa congressman issa posted notes are you are telling each other how many people are enrolling in obamacare, why wont you tell the American People . Thisenator has described law as an approaching train wreck. My grandfather was a record engineer in kansas a railroad engineer and kansas. He drove the locomotive and headed into the right direction, that is what our country needs to do. Turn the law around and headed in the right direction. Obamacare is the wrong direction, it expands a Delivery System that we already knew costs too much. The right direction is more choices, more competition that lowers cost so americans can afford to buy insurance. Expect republicans to show up with our version of a 3
The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. Ago, richardars streeter, a 47yearold truck driver from oregon was frustrated and worried. As New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof described this weekend, mr. Schrader could not find insurance in the individual market. No Insurance Company would cover him. He did what people locked out of the market do, he went without care. After months of ignoring care, for areeter went in colonoscopy, he could not afford one. The only one the only way he could get it was from a doctor who agreed to take half payment now and half when he could afford it. He had advanced cancer advanced colon cancer. His doctor said this it was heartbreaking to see the paint on his face, the real train wreck is what people are experiencing every day because they cannot afford care. Mr. Streeter is the second patient the doctor had put off seeing because of a lack of Health Insurance and now has advanced colon cancer. He has a
You like your insurance, you can keep it. A woman sent me an email and its short. Ill quote it. She says im a two time Breast Cancer survivor and im facing the loss of insurance as of march 1, 2014. President obama said we would be able to keep our insurance if we liked it. That was untrue. Third promise if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. I got an email on october 7 from a woman and ill quote, she said ive been selfemployed for 1 years and have never been without health iven assurance. Three years ago i was diagnosed with multiple scle loss sis. Having a preexisting condition was not a problem for me as i had never let my insurance lafments my medication cost would be 4,000 per month without insurance. I received notice they were going to cancel my plan and i had to sign up for new coverage through the Health Insurance exchange. If my coverage is not in place before january 1 i will have to go without my medications. This will cause permanent disabilities, blindness and
And this person wears 3 hats of the department and the solution to that was to divide those responsibilities so that person is doing one job predominantly\and we have more sports in the department i just wanted to ask about that doubling of the wellness e ap and doubling the staff is that because of the health care act. Ive got Additional Information it might be better if when we get to that. But it is not because of the Affordable Care act its really what we see is the larger needs of the city to have one person there is not sufficient to respond to the citys needs and potentially the courts and city college we need a more Robust Program thats going to be effective and the goal be obviously so to bring down a little bit im for wellness and improving healthy employment. I have some metrics ill be showing you these but those are the 12 contracts and meeting and were way behind open getting contracts final listed. And we have little time to do everything so were going to add a data manag