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Richard Gephardt: “Mr. Gingrich, you mentioned in your opening statement your daughter, who had to wait a year to get health insurance, and…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1994
Mr. Gingrich, you mentioned in your opening statement your daughter, who had to wait a year to get health insurance, and that is precisely the kind of problem that we think the Clinton plan solves. The plan you support, the Republican plan, the Michel plan, would keep your daughter waiting 6 months, if she had a condition 3 months before she bought health insurance. Further than that, if she got sick while she had health insurance, under the Michel plan that you support, her premiums could triple, quadruple. Is that the kind of plan you support?
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Richard Gephardt
Missouri

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Discussing health insurance issues during a debate on health care reform.

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