[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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                       DEMOCRATS' UNTOLD BENEFITS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. speaker, President Clinton and his allies are 
busy concocting benefits they can claim for their plan for a 
Government-run health care system.
  But there is one benefit they could legitimately claim that millions 
of Americans will receive from the Clinton health care plan: 
unemployment benefits.
  That is right, the employer mandates and big Government bureaucracy 
of the Clinton health plan will raise employers' costs and employees' 
unemployment.
  How much will it add to the cost of doing business? According to the 
Heritage Foundation, it will cost businesses in my home State of Texas 
an additional $5.6 billion just by the year 2002 under the Clinton-
Senate plan.
  Under the Clinton-House plan, the costs are even higher. By 1999, it 
will raise the cost of doing business in Texas by $8 billion--or $1,200 
per Texas employee.
  Of course maybe the President has thought ahead. Perhaps being out of 
business and out of work will give these people time to wait in the 
long health care lines the President's plan will create.

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