if you are working at one place and go to another job and somehow being pregnant or being difficult betic or chronic disease, somehow eliminates you from seeking health care from this new provider. and pre-existing conditions, providing incentives to physicians to not only enter the field and they are making the health care decisions. lastly, prevention, prevention. four cents on every health care dollar is on prevention. we have to do a better job. the president has called us to action. the nation has suffered for too long under a system that has excluded a few and allowed others to seek access. and this delivery system that we have should be about health care and not health sickness plan that we have that is a fee for service, but encompasses all the things we talked about tonight. i thank the gentlelady from maine for allowing me to be part of this. and i yield back my time. . ms. pingree: i thank my colleagues for willing to be here and i yield back the balance of my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maine yields back. under the speaker's announced polic

cost hospitals less because they won't run the battery of tests to see if this person is a difficult betic because they know what sa john doe's medical history. it's something we ought to explore for americans so they can have quick access to medical records. ms. pingree: i think it's one of the reasons why earlier this year we went along with the president's proposal and invested so much on health information technology. it's been clear to people for a long time that so many different insurance companies and so many different kind of forms make it difficult for practitioners to run a business and hospitals to operate. and as you said, for people to get the kind of medical care they really need. we are about time to wrap up here and i will go over again from my perspective and certainly let the gentleman from ohio close with a few thoughts as well, but i want to emphasize again that from my perspective and my home state and what i hear from across the country, everywhere i go, people say can you get a health care plan passed? are you going to do something about all of the things we have be