Pete Sessions: “What this bill does is it modernizes Medicare and so much more because it then gets into health care for families. It…”

“What this bill does is it modernizes Medicare and so much more because it then gets into health care for families. It talks about the opportunity for families to be able to save money on a pretax and tax-free basis. Why is that important to my family? That is important to me because I have got a beautiful wife of 19 years, I have got a son who is 14 years old, who plays football and wrestles, and he sometimes gets hurt, and I have a 9-year-old Down's syndrome son who spends an extensive amount of time needing help with physicians and health care professionals. Not always do we get an answer back from the insurance company that they want to cover the needs of my family. Sometimes the needs of my family go well beyond those needs of what insurance pays for. But my family, like millions of other families, will now be helped because of the extreme generosity of the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) who have written a bill that will allow families to save up to $5,000 a year.”