[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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                        COMMONSENSE HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HUTCHINSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the Senate Finance 
Committee predicted that if President Clinton wanted it, the Congress 
could pass a health care reform bill that would make insurance 
available to everyone within 10 years.
  But it seems the administration does not want such reform. For the 
President, it is his way or the highway. And that is too bad.
  The Clinton reform plan has many serious flaws. It has price controls 
which will diminish health care quality. It has employer mandates which 
will kill jobs. And it greatly enhances the presence of the Government 
in the health care delivery system which makes most Americans very 
nervous.
  I urge the President to support commonsense health care reform. If 
Congress can agree on a plan that would extend coverage to millions of 
Americans now unprotected and contain costs, that bill should be 
signed.
  Let us fix the problems that plague our current system, without 
resorting to job killing employer mandates or a huge Government 
bureaucracy. And let us do it now.

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