Porter Goss: “yesterday the Washington Post reported that 80 percent of Americans fear that the Clinton health plan would reduce the…”

“yesterday the Washington Post reported that 80 percent of Americans fear that the Clinton health plan would reduce the quality of health care in this country. The same poll showed more Americans disapprove of the President's plan than support it. That is certainly consistent with the message I am receiving from constituents in my district. Most telling however, is the fact that now more than 60 percent of Americans feel like they actually know something about the proposal and the bottom line: The more people learn about the President's 1,300-page bill--and its arbitrary price controls, big government alliances, and new bureaucracies--the more skeptical they become. In other words, the more they know, the more they dislike, notwithstanding rhetoric cranked out at a dizzying speed by White House spin doctors. It is time to move on to other choices--and there are other choices, better choices like the Rowland-Bilirakis bill--that deserve attention and action.”