[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 95 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H5638]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      PRO-PATIENT, PRO-SMALL BUSINESS REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I agree with my friends on the other side of 
the aisle, we do need to ensure that patients in managed care plans are 
afforded basic rights and remedies, and the Republican plan does just 
that. But, unlike the Kennedy bill, the Dingell bill or any of the 
other alternatives out there, our plan also does something about the 41 
million Americans who do not have health insurance today.
  By providing small businesses with the ability to pool their 
resources to achieve economies of scale, we can help to insure millions 
of Americans who simply cannot afford it now, and we do it without 
resorting to government-run health care.
  While the other plans are good news for bureaucrats, and probably for 
trial lawyers, too, there is only one plan that reaches out across the 
United States of America to the mom and pop store employees throughout 
our land, and that is our plan.
  I urge my colleagues to support the pro-small business, pro-patient 
Republican health plan. It is worth taking a good close look at.

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