On the recordMay 22, 1996
It is $2,500, $2,000, $4,000 deductible. So anything that you do not spend goes into your pocket. There is a woman in Tampa, FL, who had breast cancer. She could not get the information she needed through the traditional health care provider network. So what she did, she got on the Net. How many of you out there have breast cancer? And she formed a network and was able to find a support group and a physician who had a new specialty and a new drug, and as a result she has been able to deal with her illness a lot better. Now, there is a doctor in Fort Worth who recommends a system whereby we can use our own television to actually one day get on some of those blank channels after channel 40 that, you know, we have on every TV, and they are all blank, get in there and say, ``Back injury. How much? What? Lower back? Upper back,'' and keep pushing your remote and concentrate on where your back problems is, and then it would tell you the nature of it, which physicians in your area serve it, how much it costs to prevent, to spend on it. And think about how, if you tie in medical savings accounts in with the information highway, how great it will be for the American consumers.
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