[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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                CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM CAN BE FIXED

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, these Clinton-like health 
care bills about to come to this floor all have one central thesis: 
``Let's make employers pay for it.'' It is because we do not have the 
honesty to ask the American people to pony up this money. We cannot 
afford it. We have got a burgeoning budget deficit, so let us just make 
somebody else pay for it: employers.
  But employers are not going to pay for it. It is estimated that 1 
million to 3 million Americans would lose their jobs if the Clinton 
health care bill were to become law. Another 23 million American 
workers are going to see reduced wages and reduced benefits because of 
the effects of this Clinton health care bill on their employers.
  And so it is not America's employers who are going to pay, it is 
America's employees. A much as we want to help every American get 
health care, I do not know many workers in my district or around this 
country who want to give up their job, to give up their benefits or 
their wage increases so that others can have health care.
  We can fix the problems in the current system without big Government-
run health plans.

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