[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6434]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           URGING SUPPORT FOR COMMONSENSE HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, the time for health care reform is at hand. 
Congress, for the first time, will deliver health care reform that will 
attack waste and fraud, make health care more affordable and make 
health care insurance more available for the American people.
  The President has a simple choice. He can do what the American people 
want, and sign this very important reform package. Or he can work to 
derail this reform bill and please the left wing of his party.
  According to press accounts, liberals in the Democrat caucus are 
deathly afraid of medical savings accounts, because it gives more power 
to families to make their own health care decisions.
  These liberals want the Government to call the shots. They want 
Washington bureaucrats to decide what kind of health care families can 
or can't have.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people want health care portability. They 
want to make health care insurance both available and affordable. And 
they want to get rid of the waste and fraud that every senior citizen 
knows is in the health care delivery system. And they want it now.
  I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense reform.

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