On the recordSeptember 20, 2000
I think one of the keys that the gentleman just mentioned is we often talk about choice in the abstract. It is important, I think, for people to understand that not only under the Clinton-Gore plan do you make one choice at the outset, you either opt in or opt out and that decision is binding for life, but the second point is...if you choose to participate in the plan which the Clinton-Gore team is proposing, you are, in fact, giving away your choice, your right to choose the drug that is best for you, to a Federal bureaucrat. I know many people that work as government employees...but under the Gore plan the schedule of committed drugs would be decided by someone deep in the bowels of the Federal bureaucracy.
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