[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2969]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this health care debate, 
we have to ask ourselves: What are the Washington liberal Democrats 
afraid of? Why are the Democrats so anticonsumer choice? Why are they 
so against power to the people? Why are they doing everything possible 
to defeat medical savings accounts, which would allow their own 
constituents to have more health care choices without the edicts and 
interference of insurance companies, health care agencies, managed care 
business types? Why are Democrats afraid of consumer choice?
  It is simple. If their constituents find out that they are in a 
better position to make choices that suit themselves better than what 
Washington liberals want them to do, then their consumers and 
constituents are going to figure out, you know, ``We do not need all 
the bureaucracy that the Democrats keep taxing us for. In fact, we do 
not need these Democrats.'' They will probably invite them to come 
home. That, Mr. Speaker, seems to be why they are so afraid of anything 
that would give more decision-making power to the American consumers 
and less to the Washington bureaucracy. Vote for the Republican health 
care reform plan.

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