[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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                     BIPARTISAN HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ROWLAND asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROWLAND. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I introduced, along with nine of 
my colleagues from both sides of the aisle, the Bipartisan Health Care 
Reform Act of 1994. In doing this, we hope that this legislation will 
serve as a benchmark for the consideration of health care reform in the 
next Congress. It is truly consensus. It was put together by taking 
from those pieces of legislation that had already been introduced, 
areas where there is general agreement: Insurance reform, malpractice 
reform, antitrust reform, administrative simplification, fraud and 
abuse reform, and subsidization of the purchase or insurance for the 
low income, without more taxes, burden-some mandates or increased 
Government bureaucracy.
  But just as important as the product, is the process. Five 
Republicans and five Democrats, working together produced this bill, 
proving that both sides of the aisle can work together, and indeed must 
work together, to address an issue of this magnitude.

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