[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6516-H6517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, this morning I would like to talk about health 
care, because Americans want health care and they want health care 
reform.
  Interestingly enough, there is bipartisan support for health care 
reform, reforms which would provide portability, which is the right of 
a person to transfer their health insurance when they change jobs, and 
also a provision that would ban prohibitions against preexisting 
conditions, so if their child has asthma, they can still get health 
care. There is bipartisan support in both houses.
  We ought to pass it because the American people want it. But why do 
we not pass it? Because the Republican majority wants to overreach 
again. They want medical savings accounts.

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  Mr. Speaker, the American people are not asking for medical savings 
accounts. Medical savings accounts sound good, but actually they only 
work for the wealthy and the healthy. Those people who are poor, those 
people who are middle class, those people who are sick will face rising 
premiums as the healthy and the wealthy get out of the health insurance 
pool.
  That is why medical savings accounts are not a good idea. Let us put 
that idea on hold. Let us pass what the American people want, which is 
health care reform. That is why Republicans are bad managers, because 
they cannot see the forest for the trees.

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