[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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                PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE PLAN A DISASTER

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, over the weekend the National Governors' 
Association, a bipartisan association comprised of all the Nation's 
Governors, joined Pizza Hut and others in bluntly criticizing the 
Clinton-style plan passed by the House Committee on Ways and Means for 
the purpose of reforming health care.
  The National Governors' Association said, ``This plan would put 40 
percent of Americans in a costly Government-run entitlement program.'' 
Democrat Governor Lawton Chiles of Florida said the bill passed by the 
Committee on Ways and Means would be a ``disaster'' if enacted.
  Now, this disaster being pushed by Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and others 
would heap more taxes on business, cause a corresponding loss of up to 
a million jobs, and would produce a health care system run with the 
efficiency of the Post Office and the compassion of the Internal 
Revenue Service, about which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] 
was explaining to you.
  Governor Chiles was right. Such a plan is, indeed, a disaster. 
President Clinton should go back to the drawing board.

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