[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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                      PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with an urgent call for us to 
move away from debating whether our current health care system has just 
a few problems or is in major crisis. The fact is, our ``best-in-the-
world'' health care system is just not working for all Americans.
  While we, here in Congress, bicker over the diagnosis, there are 
millions of Americans who know the system is sick and they are looking 
to us to find a cure.
  As I travel throughout my district and talk to my constituents, I am 
bombarded with requests to do something about their lack of health 
benefits.
  The vast majority of them are temporary workers who work full-time 
every day, but are not provided health benefits.
  They are welfare mothers who want to work but are afraid of losing 
the benefits offered by Medicaid. They are the families struggling to 
pay the astronomical medical bills of a loved one who is sick.
  They typify the millions of Americans who have fallen through the 
cracks of the current health care system and who are looking to us to 
do something so that the system works for all.

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