Generic - Nov 2020

Before a medical student becomes a doctor, he or she must take the Hippocratic Oath, a medical code of ethics that begins, "First, do no harm." In contrast, members of presidential commissions take no such oaths, as evidenced by the "Consumer Bill of Rights" unveiled recently by President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.

ABSTRACT FROM CATO

The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered at a Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation "Congressional Staff Education Luncheon" on September 15, 1997.

This is an address by William J. Bennett to the Budget Committee Taskforce on Education. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: It is a pleasure to address this taskforce of the Budget Committee on Education. I commend your decision to conduct a review of American K-12 education.

Testimony of JAMES C. MILLER III before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on H.R. 1415, THE "PATIENT ACCESS TO RESPONSIBLE CARE ACT"

The House and Senate will soon have the opportunity to vote on whether to give America’s depression-era sugar program a new lease on life. How Congress chooses to deal with this program — perpetuating or phasing it out — will demonstrate whether it has heard the message sent by voters a year ago to eliminate wasteful programs, or whether it will continue politics-as-usual.

Chairman Thomas, Commissioners, good afternoon. My name is Michael Cannon and I represent Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan consumer group with 250,000 members. Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation believes consumer choice and competition among health care and coverage providers are the keys to consumer protection. These tools enable consumers and health coverage providers to discipline those providers who fail to offer a quality product.

In 1994, faced with the horror of having government bureaucrats make their health care decisions for them, the American public rejected the Clinton health care plan. On September 15, President Clinton told a union audience of his failed health care plan, "What I tried to do before won't work. Maybe we can do it another way. That's what we've tried to do, a step at a time until eventually we finish this."