[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 22 (Thursday, March 3, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: March 3, 1994]
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                       CLINTON CARE-LOWER QUALITY

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Washington Post reported that 80 
percent of Americans fear that the Clinton health plan would reduce the 
quality of health care in this country. The same poll showed more 
Americans disapprove of the President's plan than support it. That is 
certainly consistent with the message I am receiving from constituents 
in my district.
  Most telling however, is the fact that now more than 60 percent of 
Americans feel like they actually know something about the proposal and 
the bottom line: The more people learn about the President's 1,300-page 
bill--and its arbitrary price controls, big government alliances, and 
new bureaucracies--the more skeptical they become.
  In other words, the more they know, the more they dislike, 
notwithstanding rhetoric cranked out at a dizzying speed by White House 
spin doctors. It is time to move on to other choices--and there are 
other choices, better choices like the Rowland-Bilirakis bill--that 
deserve attention and action.

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