[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 28, 1994]
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    THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORT MAJOR FEATURES OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. KLECZKA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLECZKA. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California 
[Mr. Fazio].
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague, the gentleman from 
Wisconsin [Mr. Kleczka] yielding time to me.
  I think it is important to understand what was really included in the 
poll that was reported in the Washington Post today. Mr. Speaker, it 
said that 58 to 38, people in this country think the health care system 
needs a major overhaul, not just a tuneup. An overwhelming majority are 
for the core principles of the President's plan, which are universal 
coverage and a mandate that makes all responsible for health care.
  Seventy-eight to twenty, people agree with the President's bottom 
line, universal coverage. Seventy-two to twenty-seven percent say that 
employers should be required to provide health insurance for their 
full-time workers. Sixty-one percent to thirty-seven percent support 
charging people more for plans that provide a choice of doctors than 
those with assigned doctors. Seventy-five percent support some kind of 
controls on costs.
  It seems to me that the people who have interpreted the news this 
morning have done so from their own perspective and have ignored the 
facts that are on the record. That is that the American people know 
there is something fundamentally wrong with our system, know they have 
a lot to gain to fix it, and are very willing, when we look at the 
components of the President's plan, to embrace the initiative that he 
has brought to Congress.

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