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Congressional Record—Senate S8057 July 14, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S8057 heard reports about chemical and bio- an interim report that we can quote. A while back, I held a ‘‘living room logical weapons being dispersed. We That interim report noted finding meeting’’ on health care costs in Sioux cannot confirm where they are. We ‘‘dozens of WMD-related program ac- Falls. An older, married couple came to only hope and pray they are not in the tivities and significant amounts of that meeting. He’s a veteran, 68 years hands of terrorists who have made equipment that Iraq concealed from old, with diabetes and congenital heart their way to the United States. But the United Nations during the Inspec- failure. She’s 62, with cerebral palsy. only time will tell. tions that began in late 2002.’’ Last year, shortly after the husband Conclusion 97, which is on page 348 of Some of these included, for example: retired, this couple learned that the the Intelligence Committee report, A clandestine network of laboratories and wife’s bladder cancer had come back. concluded: safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence This couple pays $418 a month in The CIA’s judgment that Saddam Hussein, Service that contained equipment subject to health insurance premiums through if sufficiently desperate, might employ ter- U.N. monitoring and suitable for continuing COBRA, plus another $400 a month for rorists with global reach—al-Qaida—to con- CBW research. prescriptions, and more on top of that duct terrorist attacks in the event of war, That is chemical and biological in co-pays for doctor visits. Soon, their was reasonable. weapons research. COBRA eligibility will expire. And of course it was reasonable; after A prison laboratory complex, possibly used The husband is on a waiting list—a all, we already knew Saddam Hussein in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi of- waiting list—to see a VA doctor. But was supporting terrorists such as the ficials working to prepare for U.N. inspec- they don’t know how they will pay for Arab Liberation Front, and he was of- tions were explicitly ordered not to declare the wife’s health care after they lose fering money to the families of suicide to the U.N. their current insurance coverage. Indi- bombers, particularly Hamas. We know The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The vidual coverage for a 62-year-old he had the ability to turn his manufac- Senator’s time has expired. woman with cerebral palsy and cancer turing capabilities, with the scientists Mr. BOND. Mr. President, is there would be prohibitively expensive—if he had, into the production of chemical any time remaining on our side? they could get it at all. So, after nearly and biological weapons. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. No. 20 years of marriage, this couple is con- We know how tragic the terrorist at- Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I ask for 1 templating divorce as the only option tack of 9/11 was on our soil. We lost more minute to conclude. for getting essential health care for the over 3,000 people. They used unconven- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. I be- wife. tional weapons—airplanes loaded with lieve the Senator has 49 seconds re- If this Senate wants to protect Amer- fuel—to cause those deaths. I tremor to maining. ican families, let’s discuss what we can think about what could happen if Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I will do do to make health care more affordable chemical or biological weapons were the best I can with the time remaining and accessible so that spouses don’t used in large areas where unsuspecting to conclude. have to consider divorcing each other civilians are gathered in the United Dr. David Kay said he thought ‘‘it in order to get essential health care. States. was absolutely prudent’’ going into Forty-four million Americans were After what happened on 9/11, we had Iraq. He went on to say: uninsured in 2002—the most recent many investigations saying why didn’t In fact, I think at the end of the inspection year for which figures are available. we put all of those elements together? process, we’ll paint a picture of Iraq that was That’s 2.4 million more Americans They were very fragmentary. We had far more dangerous than even we thought it without health insurance than the year walls that prevented us from sharing was before the war. It was a system col- before—the largest 1-year increase in a that information among our intel- lapsing. It was a country that had the capa- decade. Eight-and-a-half-million of ligence agencies. It would have been al- bility in weapons of mass destruction areas those 44 million Americans are chil- most impossible, even in hindsight, to and in which terrorists, like ants to honey, were going after it. dren. Sixteen million are women, many connect all the dots and know what in their child-bearing years. was going to happen on 9/11. I thank the Chair, and I yield the As shocking as those figures are, After that, intelligence analysts were floor. they tell only half the story—literally. under great pressure to try to identify The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. A new study conducted for Families potential attacks on the United States, GRAHAM of South Carolina). The Demo- USA, using census data, shows that al- or the potential use by terrorists of cratic leader is recognized. most 82 million Americans—one in weapons of mass destruction and they Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I will three Americans younger than 65—were overstated many of those conclusions. use my leader time and reserve the uninsured at some point in the last two But what we know from our own expe- time left under morning business for years. Two thirds were uninsured for at rience is that Saddam Hussein consist- my colleagues. least six months. Half were uninsured ently engaged in a pattern of denial f for 9 months or longer. and deception. He made it very dif- Who are these people? They’re work- ficult to find out what he was doing. INCREASING NUMBER OF ing people, mostly. Eighty percent of We know from his actions what a dead- UNINSURED FAMILIES IN AMERICA uninsured Americans live in families in ly, murderous terrorist he was. By re- Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, this which at least one adult works. But moving the Saddam Hussein regime, we morning we were again reminded of their employers don’t offer health in- eliminated yet another front from how much remains to be done in ad- surance, or their pay is so low they which terrorists could operate safely; dressing the health care crisis in Amer- can’t afford to buy it. A growing num- most importantly, we eliminated the ica. Today’s paper has this headline: ber are middle class. One in four had possibility that Saddam’s weapons pro- ‘‘Medicare Law Is Seen Leading to Cuts family incomes between $55,000 and grams in the future could be leveraged in Drug Benefits for Retirees.’’ Accord- $75,000. by terrorists who seek to destroy us. ing to the article, the government is In South Dakota, more than 27 per- Finding huge stockpiles of weapons now estimating that 3.8 million retir- cent of people younger than 65 were un- was not the objective of going into ees who currently receive prescription insured for at least some part of the Iraq. The failure to do so should not be drug benefits through their employers last 2 years. That’s 180,000 people living taken as a measure of the lack of suc- will see their coverage reduced or with the fear that they are just one se- cess in Iraq. Prime Minister Tony Blair eliminated as a result of the Repub- rious illness or accident away from fi- today said, on receiving the Butler re- lican drug law passed last fall. nancial disaster. port, that we were right to go into That is simply unacceptable, and it is In 14 States, according to the Fami- Iraq. He has been a steadfast ally, and only one of the many problems we are lies USA study, more than one-third of we commend him. facing when it comes to health care. all people younger than 65 were unin- We also have the interim report of Over the past several years, the cost of sured for at least part of the last two the Iraqi Survey Group. We spent a health insurance has skyrocketed, and years. One in three people. The State long time listening to Dr. David Kay in millions more Americans have found with the highest percentage of unin- our closed sessions, but he has issued themselves uninsured. sured was Texas: 43.4 percent. VerDate May 21 2004 01:39 Jul 15, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JY6.006 S14PT1 S8058 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 14, 2004 We have the highest per capita they spend more than $200 a month on People without insurance pay more health care spending of any nation on muscle relaxants and other medica- for health care. Hospitals routinely Earth. Yet, in comparison with other tions Pauline needs for her MS. charge uninsured patients up to four developed, high-income nations, the The Larsons used to have private times as much as patients with insur- United States consistently scores at or health insurance. But it got so expen- ance for the same services. Too often, near the bottom on infant mortality, sive, they gave it up about 5 years ago.
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