[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 108 (Monday, August 8, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 8, 1994]
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          HEALTH BILLS MAY HAVE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR BUREAUCRACY

  (Mr. HUTCHINSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Speaker, the President now prefers the Mitchell 
health care plan to his own. He says it is an improvement; it is less 
bureaucratic, he says. Yet the Washington Post headline, on the front 
page, reads, ``Health Bills May Have No Substitute for Bureaucracy.''
  Mr. Speaker, well, instead of 1,462 pages produced by the White House 
it is only 1.410 pages. It creates 20 new Government bureaucracies. It 
is more Government, more red-tape, and more taxes.
  Among the new Government expansions under the Clinton-Mitchell plan 
would be a National Health Care Cost and Coverage Commission, a 
National Health Benefits Board, a National Council on Graduate Medical 
Education, a National Quality Council, and on and on. The Clinton-
Gephardt plan is even more bureaucratic.
  The American people know that Government is too big and too 
bureaucratic. They do not support a massive expansion of Government 
into the health care arena.

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