The President limits fees for doctors and hospitals, and limits amounts paid as we do now under Medicare, as the gentleman well knows, for premiums for plans. It it a very good cost containment system, the same one the gentleman uses and…

Mostly, I read through the list, they were mostly second-rate economists, and so I can understand, they wouldn't get their name in print any other way than to buy it.

The gentleman is brighter than that. The gentleman is listening to the chorus behind him. You are being confused by these people throwing answers at you. You are brighter than that, Mr. Bliley. No, sir, you know that a preexisting…

There is a case of a woman in my district who is 8 months pregnant, had her policy canceled, and the company said, ``You may continue that policy for another month for $17,000.'' Is that what the Michel bill does? Is it not?

The best choice for the American health system are the goals of the President's health plan, which are to provide----

I skipped right over the mandatory alliances and looked at his goal, which is to provide health care to every American at a price they can afford and at a date certain with a benefit level that we all understand, which no other plan does.

They bought their own billboard because nobody else would pay any attention to them, and the gentleman got suckered into that.

I would support making alliances and coops available to people to help them do what the President does. I don't think it is necessary to mandate them.

a number of Members are proposing that all individual Americans be mandated to purchase a basic health insurance policy, with no help from their employers and no clear, defined help from the Government. I have a modest proposal to expand…

a number of large business organizations have said recently that they would like to reconsider the financing mechanisms in the President's health care plan. They oppose taxes to help finance care for the low-income and uninsured. They…