[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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      THE CLINTON-GEPHARDT PLAN: MORE GOVERNMENT FOR WHAT ILLS YOU

  (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, House leaders have declared the Clinton-
Gephardt health care plan is not the Clinton plan. They are right. The 
Clinton-Gephardt plan is worse.
  The Clinton plan would have forced almost every American into a 
Government-run health care purchasing cooperative. The Clinton-Gephardt 
plan trashes this bad idea and replaces it with something at least as 
bad, a new Government-run health care plan called Medicare part C. This 
new entitlement program would run health care for 90 million Americans.
  If you add Medicare parts A, B, and C, it means Government-run health 
care will cover over half of the country. According to a recent 
Newsweek magazine poll, 65 percent of the American people say, ``Let us 
wait and start over on health care.'' By 2 to 1 they say, ``Let us wait 
and start over. Let us do it right.''
  I received a letter yesterday from 11 hospitals from the State of 
Arkansas, rural hospitals, who sent that same message, ``Congressman, 
wait until next year. Let us do health care reform right.''
  And the American people are right. They deserve better. Let us wait. 
Let us read the bill, study the bill, and let the American people react 
to that bill.

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