[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                   LEADERSHIP HEALTH CARE PLAN MYTHS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is no myth that the 
Clinton-Gephardt and Clinton-Mitchell plans do create huge new 
bureaucracies. It is no myth that these same plans both contain massive 
amounts of taxes and spending that America just cannot afford.
  Now, how about myth No. 3? They claim there are no employer mandates. 
Guess again. The Clinton-Mitchell bill acts as a big brother and comes 
in to impose mandates to reach universal coverage if it has not already 
happened by the year 2000. And in the Clinton-Gephardt bill those same 
mandates are forced on large employers in 1996 and smaller employers by 
1998.
  It looks a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, this one even 
talks like a duck, it is a duck.
  If the Government is forcing business to cover employees, that is a 
mandate, and Americans do not want mandates.
  Americans do know the difference between myth and reality.

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