[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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           AMERICANS WANT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE NOW

  (Mr. BILBRAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I have heard the comments of my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle on health care. I do not know who they 
are talking to out there; probably going to the country club and 
sitting down with their high-paid executives talking about why health 
care and mandatory employer mandates will not work.
  But let me tell you, I talked to the people out there. I will tell 
you, people take me by the arm and say, ``Congressman, we need help.'' 
Twenty-six percent of Nevadans have no health care, and it is growing; 
17 percent nationally.
  People want health care, and they do not want to wait until the next 
Congress, they want it now. We are willing to work with our colleagues 
from the other side of the aisle to try to find a solution to make sure 
health care works and that we get everybody in this country covered, we 
keep costs down, and make sure Americans receive what other people in 
other industrialized nations do: Medical care that is guaranteed, 
universal, and you cannot take it away, and prior existing conditions 
are not precluded. We need this kind of help, we need this help from 
both sides of the aisle. And you are kidding yourselves if you think 
the American people do not want universal health care; they do. They 
want it now, not a year from now, not 5 years from now and not 10 years 
from now.

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