[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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                         THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, I will be honest. This morning I was a bit 
angry, initially, when I saw the Business Roundtable's summary 
rejections of the Clinton health plan in favor of one that, in my 
opinion, provides less alternatives. But I am not angry anymore.
  Instead, I want to issue a challenge and an invitation, a challenge 
to move out of the conference room and get into the country, a 
challenge that, just as Members of Congress must get out of the 
Beltway, so members of our corporate communities must get out of the 
board room.
  If you like the marketplace, then how did you choose an option that 
provides less options for your employees instead of more?
  So come with me, those who voted against the Clinton plan with the 
Business Roundtable. I hope they will come and meet the Braxton County 
couple who, when their insurance ran out, because it was capped at 
$75,000, they still incurred $200,000 more in treating the wife's 
cancer, or the Jefferson County couple, who had to quit their jobs 
because their employer's insurance would not provide for the 
preexisting illnesses of their children, or the Jackson County security 
guard who may work for one of the companies that voted with the 
Roundtable and, yet, when their insurance ran out, his wife's cancer 
treatments are not covered.
  Get out of the board room, just as Members of Congress get out of the 
Beltway, and together we will discover the true health care crisis that 
is in our country.

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