[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 58 (Thursday, May 12, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: May 12, 1994]
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       AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NEEDS REPAIR, NOT DESTRUCTION

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, the President is giving many Americans an 
awful and unnecessary choice: They can either keep their job or turn 
over their health care to Government bureaucrats.
  You see, the Clintons want to pay for their huge new Government power 
grab by raising payroll taxes on employers and employees. Small 
businesses get clobbered and big businesses do not fare so well either.
  But the biggest loser is the average, American worker. CBO estimates 
that over 1.2 million jobs may be lost under the Clinton plan. Even the 
administration admits their plan could cost 600,000 jobs.
  Now it should not take a Rhodes Scholar to figure out that losing 1 
million jobs and turning our health care over to an incompetent, 
insensitive Government is just plain dumb.
  We should fix what is wrong with our current health care system 
instead of completely destroying the best system in the world. Let us 
pass the Bilirakis-Rowland health care reforms now. And, let us reject 
the President's false choice and give the American people what they 
want and deserve--affordable, accessable health care where families 
decide what is best for themselves and not Government bureaucrats.

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