[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 8, 1994]
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                          HEALTH CARE GRIDLOCK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
February 11, 1994, the gentleman from California [Mr. Herger] is 
recognized during morning business for 2 minutes.
  Mr. HERGER. Madam Speaker, there is gridlock inside the beltway on 
the road to health care reform. The legislative highway is jammed with 
various plans which seek to cure the ills of our current system, but 
none of these plans can make it to their final destination because of a 
fatal accident that has shut down the entire process. The Clinton 
caravan skidded off the left side of the road, careened into our small 
businesses, sideswiped our health care quality, spun itself into 
confusion, and crashed into the face of logic.
  I am sorry to report that the Clinton plan was dead on arrival, and 
its wreckage remains strewn in the House committees of jurisdiction. We 
need to haul off the remnants of the Clinton plan and allow the best 
plans to get through the legislative road reform.
  The Michel plan is the clear choice to make it to the finish line. It 
cures the portability problem, solves the preexisting conditions 
riddle, increases access, and lowers costs, all without sacrificing 
quality.
  Madam Speaker, let us clear the road of the Clinton plan accident and 
move on to real health care reform.

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