[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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 THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE IN HEALTH CARE--COMMON SENSE, NOT BIG BUREAUCRACY

  (Mr. ROTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton has met the enemy of health 
care, and it is Pizza Hut. But this kind of cheap-shot demogoguery 
aimed at an American-owned business we have seen on these television 
ads is no substitute for serious debate about one-seventh of our 
national economy.
  The Clinton administration has resorted to such tactics because the 
American people, in poll after poll, have rejected the big bureaucracy, 
tax-the-small-business-person approach characterized by the Clinton 
health plan.
  Even the Democratic Governors could not bring themselves to endorse a 
tax mandate on the very people who provide the jobs and serve as the 
economic engine for growth in most of their States.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to talk common sense on health care. Let us 
pass a bipartisan plan the people want: one that limits pre-existing 
condition restrictions, allows portability, allows the self-employed 
and small business the same tax breaks as big business and reforms our 
malpractice laws.
  Attacking American businesses on TV is not the answer.

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