[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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                    WHAT KILLED HEALTH CARE REFORM?

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, this past week the Democrat leaders of the 
U.S. Congress blamed the failure of health care reform on Republicans 
and special interests.
  I take offense at that comment and consider it an insult to me and 
also to the American people.
  What killed health care reform?
  Could it be proposals crafted behind closed doors?
  Could it be a Clinton plan that created 59 new Federal agencies and 
expanded the authority of 20 others?
  Could it be that the Clinton-Gephardt and Clinton-Mitchell plans were 
job killers and tax raisers?
  Could it be that the more the American people knew about these plans 
the less they liked?
  Could it be that senior citizens did not want their benefits cut and 
their costs increased?
  Maybe as the Democrat leadership leaves Congress they should find 
time to do two things:
  First, take a math course to learn that 178 Republicans does not 
equal half of 435, and
  Second, spend more time with the American people who will tell him 
why three-fourths of them did not like Clinton-style health care reform 
proposals.

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