[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14506]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    ARCHER MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when President Clinton took 
office, there were 38 million people uninsured. After 8 years, there 
are now roughly 43 million Americans who have no health insurance. Of 
those people, more than half of them are small business owners, their 
families, their employees, their loved ones.
  The goal of a patients' bill of rights should be to help these people 
get good health insurance and truly reduce the number of uninsured. One 
excellent way to do that is to expand Archer medical savings accounts. 
Increasing access to medical savings accounts would help those people 
struggling to make ends meet. Medical savings accounts help people get 
the care they need from a doctor they know. You choose your doctor. You 
choose your hospital.
  Increase the number of insured Americans. Support medical savings 
accounts and the Fletcher bill.

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