[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 194 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 194

Expressing the sense of the Congress that any comprehensive health care 
    reform legislation that is enacted should require a Senator or 
    Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
   Congress to wait for a period equal to a national average waiting 
             period before receiving a health care service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 22, 1993

  Mr. Talent submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
  referred jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and House 
                             Administration

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that any comprehensive health care 
    reform legislation that is enacted should require a Senator or 
    Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
   Congress to wait for a period equal to a national average waiting 
             period before receiving a health care service.

Whereas the President has made reform of the health care system in the United 
        States a priority for the Nation;
Whereas the President's health care reform proposal is intended to apply to the 
        receipt of health care services by every citizen of the United States;
Whereas Members of Congress will have a significant role in enacting health care 
        reform legislation; and
Whereas a citizen of the United States has a right to expect that the system 
        through which the citizen receives health care services will be at least 
        as effective and efficient as the health care system available to a 
        Member of Congress: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that any comprehensive health care 
reform legislation that is enacted should require--
            (1) a national board to calculate with respect to each 
        health care service the average period of time that an 
        individual in the United States who desires to receive the 
        service is required to wait before the service is available to 
        the individual; and
            (2) a Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident 
        Commissioner to, the Congress to wait before receiving a health 
        care service for a period equal to the national average waiting 
        period for the service calculated under paragraph (1).

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