Democratic Plan: Choice, Addordability, Lower Cost And Lower Taxes

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Mr. WEINER. Ladies and gentlemen, you are going to hear a lot of people that are opposed to the Democratic plan to reform health care, and a lot of them are on this side of the House of Representatives. Why? They already have health care. They've got a pretty good plan, like all other Federal employees. They have choice already.

If you want to make a phone call, Mr. Speaker, dial 202-224-3121 and ask for your Congressman and say, Will you give up your health plan? You've got choice already. And some of them are old enough to have Medicare, which is, that's right, a government-run plan. Are you prepared to give up that? I don't believe that they are.

The fact of the matter is that some in the Republic Party don't want these problems fixed because they are already doing just fine. They've got choice, they've got the Federal plan--that I have, by the way--they have Medicare, a government-run plan, and the rest of the country can be damned.

Well, we in the Democratic Party are saying something else. We want the American people to get at least as good as my friends in the Republic Party have. We want at least the benefits that we have here in Congress--choice, affordability, lower cost and lower taxes for all Americans. That is the Democratic plan.

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