[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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            ASK AMERICA ABOUT CLINTON'S SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

  (Mr. DeLay asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLay. Mr. Speaker, recently the Washington Times ran a letter I 
think everyone who supports President Clinton's socialized medicine 
proposal should hear.
  It is from a military wife who in her own words has ``lived with 
Government-sponsored socialized medicine for decades.'' She writes:

       I have had babies in government-run hospitals when the only 
     obstetrician I saw during the pregnancy arrived at my bedside 
     after 25 hours of labor.
       I have had a 20-year-old screening patients tell me to have 
     a seat and wait my turn even as the baby in my arms was 
     turning gray from lack of oxygen.
       I have had to fly a child home from Germany so that I could 
     get a proper diagnosis.
       I have waited on the allergy clinic list for 9 months only 
     to be told I would not be seen for at least another 6 months.

  She concludes:

       Military wives, indeed all Americans, should unite against 
     the Clintons' goal of socialized medicine. It is your worst 
     nightmare and it exists today.

  Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues, this is not another Canadian 
horror-story. This is from home and it is a glimpse of the Clinton 
future. ``I'll bet America can't wait.''

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