[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: May 11, 1994]
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                 REFORMING AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLVER. Madam Speaker, we can make history this year by reforming 
America's health care system. Our goals should be universal coverage, 
comprehensive benefits, total portability, and controlled costs. There 
is wide agreement on these goals, and we must achieve these goals.
  Every other industrial country in the world has provided this 
security to their citizens. Our neighbor, Canada, has already largely 
achieved these goals.
  The truth about the effective single payer system in Canada is 
muddled by false claims. It is not true that Canadians die in lines 
waiting for care. It is not true that Canadians are flocking to America 
to avoid rationing and poor care.
  In fact, many Americans go to Canada for care. Canadian budgets are 
burdened with fraudulent claims filed by Americans who seek treatment 
in Canada because they have no insurance here.
  The truth is that the single payer system works in Canada and can be 
a model from which we can learn as we create our American plan to 
achieve national health care.

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