[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 21 (Wednesday, March 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 2, 1994]
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                   THE NO-CHOICE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, according to a new poll, 8 in 10 Americans 
fear the quality of their health care will decline under the Clinton 
health care plan. That is 80 percent, and the American people are 
right. The Clinton plan, with its farfetched global budget ratcheted in 
and its disincentive for medical research, will irreparably harm the 
American health care system.
  In fact, some have called it the no-choice plan--no choice in 
physicians, no choice in hospitals, no choice in providers, and no 
choice who is going to go to medical school on scholarships, all kinds 
of no choices for American consumers and all kinds of power for the 
bureaucracy.
  Futhermore, the employer mandates will mean one thing--loss of jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people are right about the Clinton plan. 
The more they understand it, the more they do not like it. Let us go 
with the Michel alternative which reforms only those parts of our 
health care system that are broken and does not sacrifice American 
jobs.

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