[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 12 (Wednesday, February 9, 1994)]
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    CONFRONTING THE CAMPAIGN OF DISINFORMATION ON HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. MINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, those who are opposed to the health care 
reform effort that is now ongoing are conducting a campaign of 
disinformation. The special interests who would maintain the status quo 
are unwilling to openly confront the facts of health care reform and 
why it is absolutely essential that this Congress enact a reform that 
goes to the critical issue of providing universal health care for 
everyone. Nightly we see on television all of the ads that are being 
paid for by special interests trying to defuse the argument and take it 
away from the essential elements of the President's proposal.
  Mr. Speaker, we ought to be debating only those matters in the 
Congress that actually provide universal health care. Most of the 
proposals that are on the front pages of the newspaper do not provide 
universal health care.
  The one other bill besides the President's bill is the single payer 
bill. It has nearly 100 cosponsors in the House of Representatives. I 
urge this body to give serious consideration to the single payer bill. 
The House Committee on Education and Labor finished hearings on that 
matter this week. I urge that the other committees do the same.

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