[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                       WRONG TO RUSH HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HOBSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, let me take you back almost 1 year ago. It 
was then that President Clinton unveiled his health care plan to a 
joint session of Congress and the American public. It has taken nearly 
a year for the American public to discover what was in the Clinton 
bill, that it contained, among other unpopular measures: job-killing 
employer mandates; global budgets that ration care; restrictions on 
choice of doctors and health care plans; and deep cuts in Medicare.
  And it has taken nearly a year for the American people to reject this 
Clinton plan and to bury it. In its place a Clinton-Gephardt bill 
cropped up that, while hard to imagine, was even worse.
  Now it appears that this bill may be pulled as well and will be 
replaced with the Senate's version, the Mitchell bill, which nobody has 
had a chance to read. Nearly all we know about the Mitchell bill is 
that it is 7 inches thick and contains 17 new taxes.
  Now the White House and the majority want to force the Mitchell bill 
through Congress during the next 2 weeks. Mr. Speaker, I plead for time 
so that the American people and their elected representatives can study 
this plan and root out the hidden costs. It would be irresponsible and 
could be disastrous to the American health care system to proceed any 
other way.

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