[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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                            ONE THUMBS DOWN

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, the Congressional Budget Office took a 
look at the Clinton-Mitchell bill and gave it one thumbs down.
  According to their estimates, the plan would add at least $9 billion 
to the national deficit. According to one news report, CBO ``also found 
the plan would be difficult if not impossible for individual States to 
implement.''
  No wonder. This latest version would add 175 additional unfunded 
mandates to the States, who are already struggling under the weight of 
Federal mandates.
  Throw in the 47 new Federal bureaucracies created in the Clinton-
Mitchell bill and you have a recipe for Government-run health care. Mr. 
Speaker, there is a better way to health care reform. We should fix 
what is wrong with our health care system, without breaking what is 
right. I urge my colleagues to work in a bipartisan fashion to craft a 
commonsense solution to health care reform.

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