[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
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            THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN, BAD NEWS FOR WOMEN

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, the bad news for women just keeps coming with 
the Clinton health plan. First, mandatory health alliances threatened 
our choices of ob-gyn's and family doctors.
  Next, talk of their drug price controls hurt the research and 
development of new drugs to treat breast and ovarian cancer and 
osteoporosis.
  Now, triggered employer mandates are the latest threat, this time to 
women's jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, women make up the bulk of our workforce in retail sales, 
education services, the food industry, and household services. These 
industries will bear two-thirds of the job losses that will result from 
employer mandates. 300,000 women would lose their jobs in the retail 
sector alone.
  If Congress adopts employer mandates, it will in essence be replacing 
the glass ceiling with concrete.
  Mr. Speaker, working women need a health care plan that provides 
access to portable, affordable, and private health insurance. What they 
do not need is an employer mandated plan that will cost hundreds of 
thousands of women their jobs.

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