[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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          HEALTH CARE CRISIS AFFECTS MARYLAND STATE EMPLOYEES

  (Mr. CARDIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. Speaker, there are those who tell us that we do not 
have a health care crisis. Well, you tell that to the State employees 
in Maryland who have been asked to pay a 100-percent increase in their 
insurance premiums this year, who have been given less choice in their 
ability to select their own doctor or hospitals, who have given up 
salary increases in order to try to maintain their health care 
benefits, who are tired of paying for the costs of other people who do 
not have health insurance today, the cost shifting that occurs in our 
society.
  Mr. Speaker, we need real health care reform. We need health care 
reform that will provide universal coverage now to all the people of 
this Nation, to stop the cost shifting that is occurring.
  We need health care reform that will have effective cost containment 
in it, that will bring down the ever-escalating costs of health care in 
our society. We need real health care reform now.

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