[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 28, 1994]
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      HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT AND DESERVE

  (Mr. GREENWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Mr. Speaker, the nationwide opinion polls tell us that 
the American people want health care reform. These same polls also 
demonstrate, however, that Americans do not want a bureaucratic, 
Government-driven, job-killing health care system that takes away their 
choices, jeopardizes the quality of their care, and piles on more 
deficit spending.
  After months of public hearings and a full-scale national debate, it 
is now plainly evident that the President's proposal, even with 
modifications, is not supported by the public and cannot even attract 
enough support from congressional Democrats.
  It is time for us to do what the American people want us to do: Pass 
sensible, reasonable health care reform that expands access, holds down 
costs, and yet preserves what is good about our health care system. 
That's why I am a cosponsor and strong supporter of H.R. 3955, the 
Health Reform Consensus Act of 1994, commonly referred to as the 
Rowland-Bilirakis proposal.
  I believe this bipartisan initiative represents the best approach to 
reforming our health care system. It seeks to fix those elements of the 
system that actually need to be fixed, rather than creating an entirely 
new and costly Government bureaucracy.
  We are running out of time. It is time to set aside our differences 
and accomplish the reforms upon which we agree. I urge the President 
and leaders of the House to pass Rowland-Bilirakis and give the country 
the kind of health care reform it really wants.

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