[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 89 (Tuesday, July 12, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: July 12, 1994]
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                           EMPLOYER MANDATES

  (Mr. RAMSTAD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, employer mandates are a loaded gun pointed 
at the head of small businesses. Any employer mandate is a prescription 
for economic disaster with or without triggers.
  The Joint Economic Committee's recent survey on employer mandates 
clearly shows that a mandate will kill jobs and reduce wages. The 
Massachusetts miracle is proof of the disastrous effects of triggered 
employer mandates. Since the inception of mandates in that State in 
1988, they have been the source of widespread economic decline and job 
losses.
  Let us not make the same mistake nationwide. We simply cannot afford 
an employer mandate in any way, shape or form.
  Mr. Speaker, reasonable and effective health care reform is both 
necessary and achievable. But we do not need to kill jobs and destroy 
the current quality of care in the process. Let us reject job-killing 
mandates. Let us pull the triggers and kill the mandates.

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