[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 32 (Monday, March 21, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: March 21, 1994]
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                        IT SOUNDS LIKE SOCIALISM

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, every day Americans learn more unintended 
negative consequences of the Clinton health plan. A current Lewin-VHI 
study on the President's health reform plan found it will kill at least 
155,000 private-sector jobs with an estimated 88 percent of the cost of 
its heavyhanded employer mandate punishing workers through reduced 
wages.
  We also learn from a multinational business services report that 
implementing Clinton health plan will require 98,164 new Government 
employees to manage the 2,900 pages of new Government redtape.
  The rest of the world is moving at lightning speed away from 
centralized economies and toward free markets. We now have more 
Government employees involved in redistributing wealth in our country 
than we have private-sector employees producing wealth. Still, 
President Clinton wants to substitute Government bureaucrats for 
private-sector workers. It has been done before. It is called 
socialism. It does not work.

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