[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 12 (Wednesday, February 9, 1994)]
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ANCHORS AWEIGH
(Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, there are some very troubling aspects to the
Clinton health care plan.
It appears to me, for example, that it will obliterate the private
practice of medicine in this country. By setting price controls and
prohibiting private health care transactions, the old-fashioned family
doctor is in danger of disappearing from the American landscape.
In fact, doctors joke about the creation of offshore practices, of
hospital ships anchored outside the 3-mile limit where people can
freely buy the health care they need but cannot get under the Clinton
proposal.
I believe we should sink the Clinton health care plan before it
swamps our own individual health care choices. We do not need
Government-run health care, Mr. Speaker. What we do need is to make
private-run health care portable, affordable, and available for all
Americans.
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