NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Chairman, what this committee is preparing to deal with is a very serious matter that goes to the heart of our…”

“Mr. Chairman, what this committee is preparing to deal with is a very serious matter that goes to the heart of our constitutional republic; and it is this: that, Mr. Chairman, fundamentally there has been a breach of trust emanating from the executive branch of this administration with the citizens of this constitutional Republic. It has been reflected in what a U.S. District Court judge calls a dishonest way by those who have led the so-called Health Care Task Force in the executive branch of government. It is clear what has transpired: In a debate on national health care, rather than involving the American people, rather than involving many Members of this institution, as has been pointed out by my colleague from California, those at the White House, specifically Mr. Ira Magaziner, strove to shut off public scrutiny, strove to make secret the deliberations of this so-called Health Care Task Force, to come up with a Rube Goldbergesque plan to socialize our Nation's health care that eventually collapsed of its own weight, because it fundamentally denied the American people what is so vital within our Republic, and that is the concept of choice.”