[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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LET US ADOPT THE REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN
(Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, let us see. We will not get to choose our
own doctors. And it is going to cost more. Doesn't sound too good, does
it?
But wait. It gets worse. Tens of thousands of new, Government health
care bureaucrats come with the deal.
And a job-killing payroll tax gets slapped on American businesses.
And nobody in the Clinton administration seems to have the slightest
clue as to what the long-range cost to the American taxpayers is going
to be.
That is President Clinton's government-run health care proposal in a
nutshell.
Mr. Speaker, I just want to reiterate that Republicans have offered
an alternative to socialized medicine. The Michel plan contains no new
taxes. It comes without the bureaucrats. And it preserves the
individual choice which is so important to every American family.
Let us not do something we will all regret for a long time to come.
Let us reject the Clinton Government-run health care plan and adopt the
Michel alternative.
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