[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 138 (Wednesday, September 28, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                      RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT

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                          HON. MARTIN R. HOKE

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 28, 1994

  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, I want to bring to the attention of my 
colleagues the efforts of an organization headquartered in my district, 
whose work should serve as a model for concerned citizens everywhere.
  The organization is known as RIGOR, which stands for Responsibility 
in Government, Our Right, and is comprised of everyday Americans who 
are not content to sit back and complain about our Nation's state of 
affairs without doing something about it. RIGOR's mission is to work 
for responsible and responsive representation in government, and their 
dedication to this cause has proved an invaluable resource to me during 
my first term in Congress.
  One of RIGOR's most valuable projects in recent months has been their 
circulation of a petition, reprinted below, calling for Congress to 
enact a market-based reform of the health care system and oppose a 
government-run, tax-heavy bureaucratic approach. I commend my 
colleagues RIGOR's petition, and I urge them to heed RIGOR's good 
advice when we take up health care reform in the next Congress.

               Petition to Congress on Health Care Reform

       Responsibilty in Government, Our Right (R.I.G.O.R.) is an 
     organization dedicated to promoting responsible and 
     responsive government action. On behalf of R.I.G.O.R. and in 
     accordance with its philosophy, the Trustees of R.I.G.O.R. 
     hereby petition Congress regarding the present national 
     discussion on Health Care as follows:
       A. Any solution to problems in the health care system MUST 
     NOT include comprehensive Federal regulation of health care. 
     Present government intervention has already caused more 
     problems than it has solved.
       B. We prefer that a market-based approach favoring private 
     enterprise and empowerment of individual health care 
     consumers be the model for any health care policy changes. We 
     believe that, given the chance, the health care industry will 
     improve the current situation much faster than any government 
     bureaucracy.
       C. We fundamentally oppose the establishment of a Federally 
     Mandated or Nationalized Health Care System. In England, 
     Ireland and Canada, national health care systems have 
     resulted in closed hospitals due to money shortages. National 
     health care systems have proven to be expensive and 
     inefficient.
       The signers below, both members and non-members of 
     R.I.G.O.R., endorse and support these principles and hereby 
     petition Members of Congress to legislate in accordance with 
     these principles.

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