[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ALLARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, the health care reform decisions that this 
Congress makes will have tremendous impact on the lives of working 
Americans.
  Unfortunately, the path of mandated Federal premiums that the Clinton 
administration wants us to follow is the wrong path.
  The administration plan will cost far more than is advertised and 
will deliver far less than is promised.
  While Congress has been in recess, the administration has been 
working hard to convince the Congressional Budget Office to score 
health care reform off-budget.
  This is not fiscally honest. Congress cannot stand before the 
American people and tell them that the largest expansion of Federal 
entitlement spending in history should be hidden off-budget. Even 
Congress cannot hide $400 billion.
  It is our responsibility to let CBO know where we stand. I invite all 
of my colleagues to join Tim Penny and me on a resolution directing 
that all Government mandated health care reform be on-budget where the 
American people can see its true cost.

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