Bill Archer: “I think the debate, Mr. Speaker, has been very curious today. On the one hand, the Democrats accuse us of overreaching…”

“I think the debate, Mr. Speaker, has been very curious today. On the one hand, the Democrats accuse us of overreaching, of having too comprehensive a bill. This is from the same people that gave us the unbelievably complex Government takeover of the entire health care system in 1994. It is fascinating. And then they come and say, oh, we are concerned about insurance companies taking a part of the money paid on the premiums and not spending it on health care, but they want to deny medical savings accounts where the individual spends his or her own money without regard to a third-party payer. There is an enormous inconsistency here, but in a sense it is consistent because in 1994 they wanted to deny choice to the people of this country and now they want to deny choice to the people of this country to have their own medical savings accounts.”