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On the recordJune 18, 1996
the time for health care reform is at hand. Congress, for the first time, will deliver health care reform that will attack waste and fraud, make health care more affordable and make health care insurance more available for the American people. The President has a simple choice. He can do what the American people want, and sign this very important reform package. Or he can work to derail this reform bill and please the left wing of his party. According to press accounts, liberals in the Democrat caucus are deathly afraid of medical savings accounts, because it gives more power to families to make their own health care decisions. These liberals want the Government to call the shots. They want Washington bureaucrats to decide what kind of health care families can or can't have. Mr. Speaker, the American people want health care portability. They want to make health care insurance both available and affordable. And they want to get rid of the waste and fraud that every senior citizen knows is in the health care delivery system. And they want it now. I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense reform.
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Dennis Hastert
Illinois

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Addressing health care reform and urging support for a reform package.

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