[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H70]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      WHAT AMERICAN FAMILIES NEED

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last night the President laid 
out a blueprint that addresses the needs of America's family in his 
strong State of the Union address. He laid out a blueprint to start 
protecting Social Security and make sure that it is on financial safe 
footing in the 21st century.
  He laid out a plan for managed care reform that for the first time 
will make sure that those individuals who are receiving medical care 
through managed care are, in fact, getting the medical care that they 
need and that they deserve, given their ailments and not that which is 
decided by bookkeepers and CEOs and shareholders who have nothing to do 
with the delivery of medical care, those very same people who are 
overriding the judgment of doctors who ask that their patients be taken 
care of in one manner and the managed care organizations decide that 
they will not do that. That is what America's families need.
  He also addressed the need for expanded child care so that American 
families can continue to participate in the economic system of this 
country and support their families and know that their children are 
safe, know that their children are receiving child development and 
afterschool programs for these same children.
  Mr. Speaker, this is what America's families need. It is what the 
President addressed.

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