[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
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                     THE CLINTON BILL: STILL ALIVE

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, rumors about the demise of the Clinton 
health plan are greatly exaggerated.
  Last week, the President and the Democratic leadership publicly 
stated that the Clinton health care plan was dead, adding that they 
were crafting a new approach to health reform.
  But as the Wall Street Journal put it, despite the leaders' emphasis 
on a new approach, the bills they are designing aren't radically 
different from the administration's proposal.
  Mr. Speaker, merely changing the name on the Clinton health bill will 
not make much difference. Only a truly different approach to reform 
will sell with the American people.
  Global budget, employer mandates, job-killing payroll taxes, mandated 
community ratings, rationing, these are the concepts that scare the 
American people, but these are the very points that still remain in the 
Clinton health care bill.
  I urge the Democratic leadership to listen to the desires of the 
American people. Work with Republicans to craft a commonsense approach 
to health care reform.

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