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On the recordAugust 1, 1996
This bill gives people availability of insurance and affordability of insurance. These were the guide words, the words we talked about to make this happen. That means that a mother who wants to change jobs and has a child that is asthmatic can take that next job. It means a father who wants to move up and do a better job for his family and get a better area or level of his occupation can move to the competitor in the next job over and know his wife with the heart condition can get that care when he changes jobs. It also means that families have choice; that if they choose to ask a doctor what is the price of this care or if they ask their health care giver what is the cost, that they can get a cost and they can make a decision on where they go because of medical savings accounts. It also tells a barber in Elgin, IL who wants to have a deductibility that is fair with other companies he can do that. He can deduct his cost of health care up to 80 percent off his income tax. It is a bill of fairness, it is a bill of availability.
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Dennis Hastert
Illinois

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Discussing the benefits of a health insurance bill on the House floor.

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