[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 3, 1994]
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  CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN SEEN AS UNACCEPTABLE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. GRAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRAMS. Mr. Speaker, with the newest proposals to overhaul the 
health care system, buyers should beware. While the label may read 
Gephardt, Mitchell, or something else, inside you will find pure, 
generic Clinton.
  The prescription is always the same--price controls, higher taxes, 
and job-killing employer mandates. But this will not sell to the 
American people--they will not swallow this plan.
  That does not matter to the Democrats, however. They want to pass a 
health care package--no matter how bad the plan, harmful the effects, 
or deadly the results. As Senator Jay Rockefeller said, the Democrats 
will pass a plan, regardless of what the American people want. And you 
bet the centerpiece of this plan will be the employer mandate tax. 
Democrats may try to couch it in different ways, but the outcome is 
still the same--jobs on death row until Congress pulls the trigger.
  I have a message from Minnesota to Dr. Clinton and his assistants in 
Congress. A man approached me at a parade and said, ``Rod, keep the 
Government out of my health care, keep its hands out of my pockets, and 
deliver my mail on time. That's all I want from you guys.''
  So listen to the American people.

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