[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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       THE COST OF THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN TO SMALL BUSINESS

  (Mr. KIM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, I would like to note some of the things that 
small business owners are saying to me about the Clinton health care 
plan:
  Mr. Chuck Keagle, who runs several small restaurants in my district, 
told me that ``if the Clinton plan were enacted as it stands now, my 
problems as a small business owner would go away because we simply 
would not survive.''
  Barbara Price, owner of A-plus Mailing Systems, testified that ``The 
plan is going to mean one of two things: we will be out of business, or 
we are going to severely reduce the number of employees.''
  These comments were not unique. In fact, I recently held a small 
business forum at which every small business owner told me that if the 
Clinton plan passes, they would have to either lay off employees or 
close entirely.
  When you listen to this kind of testimony, which comes from real 
people running real businesses, it becomes extremely clear that the 
employer mandates in the Clinton plan pose a life-or-death threat to 
small businesses.
  For this reason, I strongly urge my colleague to reject the Clinton 
administration's attempt to place a costly new burden on this Nation's 
small businesses, this ill-written employer mandate.

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