[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 116 (Thursday, August 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9709]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PEOPLE NEED HEALTH CARE SECURITY

  (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, I rise today to announce to the American 
people and to this body that the score is not exactly an Olympic score, 
but it is big Government, big obtrusive Government, 0, the American 
people, 2.
  That is a good trend, and we hope to raise and make that score even 
spread, but with the passage of welfare reform and, today, health care 
reform, we have given the American people something on a bipartisan 
basis, mainly because some people in this Congress have stood up and 
said there is a principle, there are some things we could do.
  People need to have health care security. We need to make health care 
portable so a mother who loses her job, with an asthmatic child, can go 
and get health care at the next stop, at the next job she picks up; 
that a father who is locked into a job that he has and a wife with a 
heart condition will move on to a better job because there is 
portability.
  And, yes, we do give American families choice, choice through the 
medical savings account to choose the doctor they want, to choose the 
health care they want, and if they do not spend that money they get to 
keep it.

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