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April 17, 1993
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REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AT HEALTH CARE BRIEFING
Great Falls, Montana
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MRS. CLINTON: Thank you very much.
I am so pleased to
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be here.
I had other op'portunities to come to Montana and visit. My
husband and daughter and I had a wonderful night. a few years ago in
your Governor's residehde, with then-Governor Schwendon*. And I am
just so pleased to be b~ck.
And I've told anyone who will listen, I
will take just about an~ excuse to return.
So·I hope you will give
me that opportunity.
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I am very grateful also for the invitation that I
received from Senator B~ucus to come to Montana. And yesterday
Senator Baucus and Sena~or Burns and I were, at the invitation of
Congressman Williams, i~ Billings. And I had an opportunity there to
meet with citizens of Mdntana to talk about health care and came away
impressed at thecommit~ent and thoughtfulness that people are
bringing to this very d~ffi6ult issue.
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And I'm par!ticularlY looking forward to hearing from
those who will be making formal presentations and those who will be
asking questions here t~is morning, because what I have found in my
travels around the coun~ry is exactly what you have already heard
from both of your senatdrs and your congressmen, from your governor
and your state senator ~nd the chairman of Health Montana -- there. is
a great, deep yearning 9n the part of Americans to come together to
reach a consensus to try1to solve this particular set of problems
that affects every indi~idua~, every household, every business, and
every level of government . . The whole dilemma that we are confronted
with,now with respect td health care is one that affe~ts every single
American.
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I did not Jnow until Congressman Williams told us this
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morning that people in Montana actually pay more for health insurance
than people in any othe~l· country anywhere in the world. That is a
fact that I wrote down and I will take with me.
It is emblematic of
the extraordinary probleim that we are facing.
The dimensions of. that
problem are one you in t:his state (gap in tape)
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(gap in tape) -- figures\approximatelY $940 billion. That is all of
us -- individuals, households, businesses, all levels of government.
That $940 billion is a lbusy investment, because we don't even cover
every American. When wei compare ourselves with other countries that
have tackled these problems ahead of us, they not only cover all of
their citizens, but they11do it at less of a cost. What we want is to
come up with an American solution that leaves room for a Montana
solution so that all Ame~icans will feel they are part of solving
.this health care crisis.! (Applause.)
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We a 1 so want to b e1ng to re1nst1
responsibility into the ~ystem. We want people to be more
responsible for themselv~s, for their families, for their own health
care. . (Applause.)
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The preside~t is looking ata system that will be a
national framework with dertain national guarantees that all
Americans will be able td rely on, but with the kind of state
flexibility that states ~ike Montana need to have.
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And I want tic say a special word about rural health
care.
In Billings yester~ay when we were listening to some of the
. people there talking abou~ the difficult they face with the distances
and the other problems ofl access here in this state, I said, that we
needed to coin a new phrase, that rural is something I'm familiar
with in Arkansas, but we'te talking hyper-rural or megarural here in
Montana.
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sol we probably need to come up with yet
another way of discussing the problems that you particularly
confront.
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But one thin~ I can guarantee you is that my husband
believes very strongly inlmaking sure that rural America is
adequately cared for, that its need are taken into account. That's
what he has grown up withl in believing; the kind of problem that he
has lived with, he's understands and he feels.
And we are going to
,do all that we cantoputlin to place a system that rural America
will not only be able to take advantage of, but be participants in
helping to shape.
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Because no matter what the proposals that the President
sends to Congress are, welknow we have no magic bullet. There is not
an easy answer to this problem, which has grown up over decades.. We
will need the continuing donsultation and help from citizens allover
America through their loc~l governments, through their state
governments, to be able td make sure that what we see as a vision of
quality, affordable healt~ care for every American becomes a reality.
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So I view th~s as the first of many conversations I
would like to take part i~ on behalf of my husband and others who,are
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working to make sure tha1t we achieve these goals. ~ecause once we
come with a plan we will all have a lot of hard work ahead of us to
make sure that plan works..
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And I'm rea~ly counting on a new spirit of cooperation
and commitment in our cohntry.
I want again to feel that I'm living
in the country that I tobk for granted and was raised in.
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that for some people, th~t sounds nostalgic and maybe unrealistic.
But I remember very well~ even though I grew up in a suburb and not a
rural community, that everybody looked out for each other, that
nelghbors really cared about each other, doctors made house calls -
those kinds of things th~t seem like part of distance past.
But you
know, there was a connectlon among us then that I would 11ke to see
reinstilled in America.
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Health care touches us at our most basic.human
experience level. There,!s nothing like the birth of a baby, or the
death of a loved one. T~ere's nothing like walking those long
hospital corridors or going out and seeing the joy on a person's face
when you tell them that ~verything is going to be all right.
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That's how we really, at the very most baS1C level,
understand what it means Ito be a human being; understand what it is
about. life that connects IUS from generation to gener~tion; makes us
reliant in a most fundamental way upon each other.
We've gotten away
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from that.. We've watched bureaucracles and paperwork and red tape
and distance between people replace that human caring that needs to
be at the root of any he~lth ca~e system. And we can't wave a magic
wand and reverse time.
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But we can try -- as you work here on Health Montana and
as we work on trying to t~ke this system and make it hUman again -
to remember what is reall~ important in our lives and those moments
when we are so dependant upon each .other. That's what I hope:
that
in a few years we will no~ only have a streamlined system; will not
only have a better distribution of health care professionals, and
have more primary and preyentative .health care physicians, and nurse
practitioners, and physician assistants; will not only have better
access, but we'll feel better about ourselves. Not just because
we're healthier, but becahse we're part of a community of caring
again.
And health care c~n be the start of that if we do it right.
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