[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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               CLINTON HEALTH CARE BILL UNDER A NEW NAME

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues that the demise of 
the Clinton health care bill has been greatly exaggerated. Last week 
Democrat leaders from the Senate and the House met with President 
Clinton and declared the Clinton health care bill dead. But we are 
going to have a new bill.
  The new bill happens to have all the same elements of the Clinton 
health care bill. We are still going to have employer mandates. It is 
going to cost a lot of people their jobs. It is going to cost those who 
keep their jobs, and there will be reductions in their wages and 
reductions in their fringe benefits. We are still going to have global 
budgets, and it will mean nothing more than rationing.
  So I would say to my colleagues that the American people know that 
the Government is too big and spends too much. Let us not make the 
Government bigger and keep spending more, while at the same time 
injuring the health care delivery system that most Americans today find 
highly acceptable.

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