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Jay Rockefeller: If I might then just go back for a moment to the thoroughly savaged Clinton health care plan on the floor this evening…

On the recordMay 16, 1996
If I might then just go back for a moment to the thoroughly savaged Clinton health care plan on the floor this evening, which, as I indicated is now a part of history. One of the things that the Senator is now able to do, if he in fact takes the trouble to do this, under the so-called Government health insurance program, which I would submit is hardly Government, because, for example, I have a Blue Cross-Blue Shield card, and the last I heard Blue Cross-Blue Shield was a private insurance company----
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Discussing the Clinton health care plan during Senate floor debate.

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