[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                           HERE ARE THE FACTS

  (Mr. FAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I hope people can put aside all the rhetoric 
about taxes and big government bureaucracies. The facts on this plan 
will come out, and, just because revenues are referenced in the Tax 
Code 1 time or 17 times does not make it a new tax.
  There are a lot of people in my district who need this plan. I have 
lots of independent farm families paying a lot for health insurance 
with $5,000 and $6,000 deductible policies. Basically all they have is 
catastrophic coverage unless, of course, they are married to someone 
who works for a public agency so that they can shift their health care 
costs to them.
  Mr. Speaker, what I hope my constituents understand is: ``If you can 
accept the plan that we are offering, and I hope we can pass it and put 
it in place, you will have a plan, a private plan, available to you. 
You will have Medicare part C available to you, something that offers 
you an unlimited choice of doctors or a managed care plan and a private 
plan offered through the Federal Health Employee Benefit Program 
providing you with many, many options. You will have access to fair, 
community-rated insurance prices under each of the options in the 
Democratic plan. You will also have 80 percent of the costs of your 
premium deducted because today self-employed people get zero in terms 
of tax deductions for the health costs.''
  Mr. Speaker, this is a huge increase in the pockets of people who are 
self-employed, farmers and the kinds of self-employed small business 
people. They need our help. We should pass this bill.

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