[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13059]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 TOP TEN REASONS TO VOTE FOR H.R. 1304, QUALITY HEALTH-CARE COALITION 
                              ACT OF 2000

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, when the doctor cartel bill comes up this 
afternoon, I will give my colleagues 10 reasons to vote for it.
  First, they like what OPEC has done to oil prices.
  Second, they think that too many low-income children have health 
insurance.
  They think Americans pay too little for health insurance.
  They would like to increase the number of uninsured Americans to a 
nice round number, say, like 50 million.
  They would like to reduce prescription drug coverage among seniors.
  They would like to increase out-of-pocket health care cost.
  They think that the best way to spend the surplus is on doctors' 
fees.
  They think that people's wages and fringe benefits are just too high 
and they would like to reduce them.
  They think doctors should change patients' medications for political 
reasons and not for medication.
  Finally, they think that the most pressing problem in our health care 
system today is that doctors make too little money.
  I ask my colleagues to watch how they vote on this.

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