Political Quotes

David Weldon: I would also like to rise in support of medical savings accounts. One of the biggest reasons why we have terrible health…

On the recordMarch 28, 1996
I would also like to rise in support of medical savings accounts. One of the biggest reasons why we have terrible health care inflation in American is because the providers and the consumers, both the doctor and the patient, are not the ones picking up the tab, and in medical savings accounts, the patients suddenly become wise and discriminating consumers. Where medical savings accounts have been implemented, cost savings average 17 percent. A 17-percent reduction in our health care costs in this Nation would be a huge benefit to our economy, a huge benefit to our industries, and a huge benefit for our competitiveness in the international markets. It is good for consumers. Support the Republican health care bill.
Said by
David Weldon
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the benefits of medical savings accounts and health care inflation.

Share

More from David Weldon

Oct 4, 2007

I rise today to take the opportunity to recognize the importance to our Nation of what happened 50 years ago today. On October 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to successfully be placed in orbit around the…

govinfo.gov
May 2, 2007

Mr. Speaker, the Democratic majority pays lip service to their support of religious people and faith-based groups, but now they are here today, in this House, enacting a piece of legislation that I believe is a shot across the bow to all…

govinfo.gov
Jul 13, 2006

I rise on the floor to address an issue that will be in the news a great deal next week. The Congress of the United States has debated on and off for quite a few years the issues surrounding new breakthroughs in cellular treatments for a…

govinfo.gov
May 24, 2005

I rise again to set the record straight. There have been some people who have implied there is limited capacity for these cord blood stems to be used successfully. They have been shown to be pluripotent. They can become all different cell…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation