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On the recordMay 22, 1996
You know, you are talking about that woman who, in so many cases today, is the head of household, and the idea that we are so cynical in Washington, DC, or liberals are so cynical that they do not want that woman who is head of the household to go out and shop for medical care, they do not think she is smart enough, they do not think she should be trusted with making that choice. So they are going to do it for her. And yet if she goes out and shops smart, and she is able to shop smart in every other area; there are many households now headed by women who are building and, in many cases where there is single women raising kids, they have many choices and many challenges to meet with respect to education, with respect to buying homes, with respect to buying automobiles, with respect to forging the lives and building the character of their kids, and the idea that liberals have that somehow that a woman is not capable of shopping for a less expensive x-ray or she is not capable of finding out how much a medical procedure costs, does not make sense. In fact the only way that we are going to be able to make health care affordable in this country is to rely on the best thing that we have got. That is the good common sense of our citizens.
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Andrew P. Hunter
Illinois

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Discussing women's roles as heads of households and their ability to make informed health care choices.

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