[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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                   THE DOC HOLIDAY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the administration has obviously 
taken a page from the Doc Holiday School of Medicine by shooting from 
the hip and attacking Congress for its health care coverage.
  But a Roll Call editorial states that the plan covering Congress and 
all Federal workers ``is more attractive than Mrs. Clinton's own 
proposal.''
  It goes on to state that the Federal employee plan offers ``a choice 
of about 300 different health insurance plans, whereas the Clinton plan 
guarantees a choice of only 3. Federal employees will lose their 
breadth of coverage if the Clinton plan is enacted. If Mrs. Clinton 
were truly interested in giving all Americans the same insurance that 
Congress has, she would favor one of several bills to allow employers 
and ordinary citizens to buy into the Federal plan.''
  Interestingly enough, Republican health care bills would allow the 
choice option to continue, while the Clinton plan would end it.
  It would seem that the White House has once again either misdiagnosed 
or misprescribed the illness. No wonder they do not want America to be 
able to get a second opinion from Republicans.

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