Paul Coverdell: “I think it is incumbent upon all of us to be very attentive to these documents to certify their accuracy. Just to allude…”

“I think it is incumbent upon all of us to be very attentive to these documents to certify their accuracy. Just to allude to several comments, the President's approach will give choice back to the people, not insurance companies. This is White House health care reform today, March 3, 1994. We just heard that statement misses the mark by a rather broad distance. Give choice back to the people. What we are talking about, as has just been discussed by the Senator from Texas, is that we are taking choice from the people and giving it to the Government. We are not giving choice back to the people. We are talking about freedom, more Government management, what benefits you can and cannot have would be decided by the Government, not the people: Who could go to the medical practitioner or not; who is too old or too young. That would not be decided by you, that would be decided by somebody in the Government. And yet this says 'Give choice back to the people.'”