WALLY HERGER: “President Clinton is finding out that nothing is more important to the average American than his or her family. And that…”

“President Clinton is finding out that nothing is more important to the average American than his or her family. And that is why his health care plan is doomed to failure. You see, after all the platitudes and all the propaganda, taxpayers are seeing the Clinton plan for what it really is, a massive Government-run bureaucracy which will control every aspect of health care. They ask the question, what would this do to me and my family? And they do not like the answer. They do not like the idea that the Clinton plan is going to cost $1 trillion in new taxes in the first 4 years. They do not like the idea that 2 or 3 million jobs, maybe theirs, will be lost in the process, and they certainly do not like the idea they are going to lose the right to choose their own doctors. Mr. Speaker, the Republican health care plan comes without the taxes and without the Government bureaucrats, and, most importantly, it preserves individual doctor choice for the American family. Let us give the Republican plan a fair hearing. Let us pass it.”