[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 15, 1994]
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             GRIDLOCK ON HEALTH CARE--A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT

  (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, gridlock has come to the aid of the American 
people. With gridlock, the reluctance of the Congress to deal with 
health care, which they know in its present wild and crazy form will 
impose horrendous results on the American people that gridlock is 
welcome news here on Capitol Hill.
  It means that we have a chance to stop once and for all the mad rush 
to a health care plan that may ruin the very best that we have in our 
health care system today. A choice of doctors, a choice of hospitals, 
the ability of innovative medicine to bring about new remedies and 
cures, all of that can go out the window if we rush to a health care 
system for which we are not prepared, not as a Congress and not as the 
people.
  I have today sent a letter to the President begging him to take the 
leadership with the legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle in 
both Houses, both Chambers, to create a bipartisan blue ribbon panel to 
recommend, just as the blue ribbon panel in 1983 did on Social 
Security, a set of recommendations to being back to the Congress in 
March 1995, so we can get about the business of health care without 
gridlock any more.
  But, Mr. Speaker, gridlock today is good. It helps the American 
people.

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