Political Quotes

“there are some very troubling aspects to the Clinton health care plan. It appears to me, for example, that it will obliterate the private practice of medicine in this country. By setting price controls and prohibiting private health care transactions, the old-fashioned family doctor is in danger of disappearing from the American landscape. In fact, doctors joke about the creation of offshore practices, of hospital ships anchored outside the 3-mile limit where people can freely buy the health care they need but cannot get under the Clinton proposal. I believe we should sink the Clinton health care plan before it swamps our own individual health care choices. We do not need Government-run health care, Mr. Speaker. What we do need is to make private-run health care portable, affordable, and available for all Americans.”