On the recordMay 15, 1996
We do not run other kinds of colleges and universities, and again fundamentally we can send folks to the best medical schools in the country, in fact, the best medical schools in the world, for a fraction of the cost. One of the arguments that has been made is that this program has not been studied and has not been analyzed, and if we somehow begin to phase out the school, it will crash the medical physician program in the U.S. military. Again, let me point out page after page after page of study dating all the way back to 1975, just 2 years after this program was established, and every single one of them concluded it costs too much money. It is not a bad program. It is not a bad idea. In the best of all worlds, we would love to do it. But let me remind my Republican colleagues, if we are going to cut the deficit, we have to ask the military to make tough choices.
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