[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 22 (Thursday, March 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 3, 1994]
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        HEALTH CARE: DO NOT CREATE NEW GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, achieving Government mandated health 
coverage such as advocated by President Clinton and others will require 
a Government intrusion into the lives of both employers and 
individuals. Implementing such a mandate will require the Government to 
make insurance affordable by rationing health care and imposing price 
controls. Price controls will lead to higher taxes, bigger deficits, 
and health care rationing.
  Employer mandates and mandatory health alliances will have a 
significantly negative impact on jobs and on the character and quality 
of our health care.
  We should focus our effort instead on reforming the current system 
rather than creating a new Government bureaucracy. Our goal, as 
policymakers, ought not to be to mandate insurance coverage for 
everyone, rather it ought to be to make sure that all Americans are 
guaranteed access to health insurance, making that access as easy and 
consumer friendly as possible within our means.

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