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On the recordMarch 16, 1994
I was on a college campus in Georgia. A women got up, a student, who was a native American, and she said she had to speak out, that if every American understood how bad Government health care is on the Indian reservations, they would not tolerate the idea of extending Government medicine to everyone else. It was a very moving and very powerful point, that here we are, not able to have public schools that work in the inner city, not able to provide safety to our children, not able to have Government that functions in all of its current duties, and we have a proposal in a massive bill to extend to every American a Government bureaucracy controlled from Washington, with decisions made by people appointed by politicians. This is not a debate at Oxford. This is not a set of nice resolutions or goals. I can agree to most of the goals my Democratic friends have. This bill would put into place some truly bizarre things.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Discussing government health care and its implications during a debate.

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