[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 24, 1994]
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          AMERICAN FAMILIES SAY NO TO CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton is finding out that 
nothing is more important to the average American than his or her 
family. And that is why his health care plan is doomed to failure.
  You see, after all the platitudes and all the propaganda, taxpayers 
are seeing the Clinton plan for what it really is, a massive 
Government-run bureaucracy which will control every aspect of health 
care.
  They ask the question, what would this do to me and my family? And 
they do not like the answer. They do not like the idea that the Clinton 
plan is going to cost $1 trillion in new taxes in the first 4 years.
  They do not like the idea that 2 or 3 million jobs, maybe theirs, 
will be lost in the process, and they certainly do not like the idea 
they are going to lose the right to choose their own doctors.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republican health care plan comes without the taxes 
and without the Government bureaucrats, and, most importantly, it 
preserves individual doctor choice for the American family.
  Let us give the Republican plan a fair hearing. Let us pass it.

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