[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 58--RELATIVE TO HEALTH CARE REFORM

  Mr. GREGG submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Budget:

                            S. Con. Res. 58

       Whereas the Administration's proposed health care reform 
     plan would constitute the largest expansion of Federal 
     entitlements in history;
       Whereas the proposed health care premiums would be 
     mandatory taxes;
       Whereas the Administration's proposed health care reform 
     plan would constitute a massive tax increase;
       Whereas the costs of any health care reform plan that is 
     kept off budget would be difficult to control and account 
     for;
       Whereas placing health care reform off budget means that it 
     would be exempt from annual budget reviews and would have no 
     meaningful restraints on growth;
       Whereas the Office of Management and Budget's own risk 
     tables, and past and present entitlement growth trends show 
     that the Administration's proposed health care reform plan 
     could increase Federal budget deficits by up to $800 billion 
     by the year 2000;
       Whereas the Federal Government has already run up massive 
     unfunded liabilities outside the budget process; and
       Whereas the attempt to place the health care reform plan 
     off budget is a move to hide the true cost of the plan from 
     the American public: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that any 
     government mandated health care reform should be included on 
     budget and should be subject to the same budget rules as 
     other tax and spending measures.

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