[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 134 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 22, 1994]
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              HEALTH CARE REFORMS STILL POSSIBLE THIS YEAR

  (Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming. Mr. Speaker, what takes a year to die a slow 
and painful death? The Clinton health care plan. One year ago today, 
the President presented to the American people his health care plan. 
And for the past year, the President has sought to ram his health care 
plan down the throats of the American people. But they have rejected 
this bad medicine. The American people realize that a Government-run, 
Government-controlled health care system, is not the remedy they 
needed.
  The Government is already too big and spends too much. We do not need 
more government and more taxes in our lives.
  I am glad everybody learned the facts during the past year about the 
President's health care plan, but I feel very badly that the insistence 
on implementation of this plan has kept us from doing some of the 
things that most people would agree to do to reform in the private 
sector in terms of health care delivery. We should do this. We should 
reform insurance, we should have tort reform, we should have antitrust 
changes, we should be something about administrative costs, and we 
could, and I hope we still try during this session.

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