[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 10, 1994]
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       BUREAUCRATS SHOULD NOT DECIDE WHAT IS MEDICALLY NECESSARY

  (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, in defining his health care plan, President 
Clinton declares that every American that gets sick must get really 
sick.
  They will have to get really sick because under the Clinton plan it 
will be up to seven high level bureaucrats in Washington to decide if 
they really need medical help.
  Under the President's plan, the National Health Board will decide 
what the guidelines will be in judging what they call medically 
necessary and appropriate treatment.
  Mr. Speaker, I can not speak for all my colleagues, but I know I 
would not want a panel of bureaucrats deciding what is medically 
necessary and appropriate for me.
  If I am sick, I do not plan to call the National Health Board--I do 
not plan to call a politician--I plan to call my doctor--that is what 
people outside the Beltway normally do when they are sick. It works--
let us not foul it up.

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