[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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          AMERICANS IN STRONG OPPOSITION TO EMPLOYER MANDATES

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, Americans are continuing to speak out 
against Government run health care reform and mandates.
  In a poll by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Nation's largest 
business advocacy group, 71 percent of those polled oppose employer 
mandates.
  These numbers reinforce what I have been saying all along--
Government-imposed mandates on our Nation's businesses will kill jobs, 
decrease wages, and reduce benefits of the American worker.
  Study by Nation's leading health care consulting firm, Lewin-VHI, 
shows that 88 percent of cost of employer mandates will be passed along 
to the worker in the form of reduced wages and benefits.
  Laura Tyson, Clinton's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 
claims 600,000 jobs will be eliminated by Government imposed mandates 
in health care reform. The Employment Policy Institute says employer 
mandates will destroy between 780,000 and 1.2 million jobs.
  President Clinton should not advocate Government-controlled and 
government-run health care at the expense of American employers and 
employees.

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