[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 158 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H9903-H9904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE POWER TO CHOOSE

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I cannot help but respond to the comments of 
the gentleman who just spoke before me because I happened to be in that 
room two nights ago and what he said was simply wrong. I know it is 
against the rules to call people liars in here, so I shall not do that. 
I will just say that everything he said is wrong.
  Doctors in this country under the new Medicare plan are going to give 
back in lost revenues about $26.1 billion. They are not happy with 
that, but they are happy with the overall thrust of the bill, which 
will, for the first time in 30 years, bring market forces to play for 
seniors just as well as it has for other people in the health care 
arena. People who want to keep their own system in Medicare as they 
have right now have that right. No one is going to be forced to change. 
But if you want to try something different, something that all the rest 
of America has been using in the last 20 years in changes in health 
care delivery, whether it is 

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HMO's, managed care, or high deductible insurance policies, they will 
have that choice.
  The important thing to note is this: They will choose, not a 
bureaucrat, not a politician in power; they will choose.

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