[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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          THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TAKEN FOR A RIDE ON HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, in a few days President Clinton and some 
of his Hollywood friends are hopping a bus to tour the country pushing 
for their big Government health care takeover. But it is the American 
people who are being taken for a ride.
  President Clinton and his allies want Washington bureaucrats telling 
folks which doctors they can see and which treatments are allowed, 
price controls, rationing of services. And they want to pay for their 
new bureaucracy with huge taxes and job killing employer mandates.
  Not surprisingly, their plan has millions of Americans calling 911 in 
a panic and, I do not blame them.
  We can do better. Along with many Democrats and Republicans, I am 
supporting the Rowland-Bilirakis health care proposal to bring real 
reform without taking away the freedom families have to make their own 
health care decisions.

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