[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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      WRONG AGAIN, THIS TIME ABOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. There they go again. They are making those numbers up, 
and every day they can come out here and make up a new set of numbers 
about what health care will do to this country.
  But the record is pretty clear. The record is clear that, when we 
passed the Budget Act, they were wrong. They said the Budget Act would 
end up destroying jobs. The Budget Act passed only with Democratic 
votes. They said it would kill the economy. What has happened? We have 
produced more jobs in the last 16 months than the previous 4 years.
  Mr. Speaker, the people on the Republican side of the aisle that will 
say that having universal health care coverage will somehow damage the 
economy have been wrong consistently. They were wrong when they were 
against Social Security, they were wrong when they were against 
Medicare, they were wrong when they were against the Budget Act which 
has reduced the deficit, about to be for the third year in a row, the 
first time since Harry Truman.
  I say to my colleagues, ``Let's stop fabricating the crisis that 
isn't going to exist. Universal health care will strengthen small 
business, it will level the playing field, and in my State it means 
small business will stop subsidizing McDonald's and other large 
corporations that don't provide health care for their workers.''

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