[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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        IN SUPPORT OF A TRUE BIPARTISAN APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, I stand in support today of a true 
bipartisan approach to health care. The American people have rejected 
the big bureaucracy system of health care delivery. They are afraid of 
a program that will be handed to them via the way of huge government, 
State and Federal bureaucracies that will give them the efficiency of 
the Post Office and the compassion of the IRS.
  They have seen the waiting lines in Canada and they do not want their 
health care rationed. They have seen people coming across the border to 
get those essential health cares which we in this country have 
provided, a secondary system for our Canadian brethren.

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  Ladies and gentlemen, the American people believe there is a common 
sense approach to health care reform. And do my colleagues know what? 
The American people also believe that our two parties on both sides of 
the aisle can get together and, as a matter of fact, that they should 
work together to find a middle ground that would provide health care 
security, health care that cannot be taken away, one that can control 
spiraling health care costs, and that we can provide these Americans 
who either cannot get it today or cannot afford it with health care.
  What the American people really want, Mr. Speaker, is the quality of 
health care we have today, the choice in health care we have today and 
not having it rationed, and a common sense, bipartisan approach will do 
that.

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