[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 2, 1994]
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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, the President and their allies on Capitol 
Hill are trying to bring a health care bill to this floor that they 
claim is going to help the middle class. Any health care bill that has 
an employer mandate in it is not going to help the middle class; it is 
going to hurt the middle class.
  I got a letter recently from Connie Mahaffey of Farmersville, OH, who 
is the owner of the Stiver Insurance Agency that has been in business 
since 1913. She writes to me and says that she will have to lay off her 
two employees if we pass a health care bill that has an employer 
mandate in it.
  Mandates on America's employers really are not hurting the employers. 
They are hurting the employees. An employer mandate is a tax on 
employment. It is going to cost 1 to 3 million jobs in America and hurt 
23 million Americans who keep their jobs.
  The American people know that the Government is too big and spends 
too much. Let us not pass a health care plan that makes the Government 
bureaucracy larger and more expensive. Let us not hurt America's 
employees by trying to tax America's employers.

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