[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25162]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               DEMOCRATS' HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL KILL JOBS

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, having run a small business, I know what 
it's like to meet a payroll and offer health care benefits to my 
employees. I know what it's like to create jobs for families struggling 
to make ends meet. I also understand the consequences for small 
businesses when Washington imposes higher taxes, new government 
mandates, and more red tape.
  Americans know that small businesses are the engine of job creation 
in their communities; government is not. And more than ever before, 
small businesses need solutions from Washington that help create jobs 
and provide quality, affordable health care for their employees.
  Republicans have been offering those solutions all year long: 
solutions like allowing small business to join together to get health 
insurance at lower rates--the same way that large businesses and labor 
unions do today; promoting wellness and expanded health savings 
accounts to provide additional flexibility to small businesses; and 
ending junk lawsuits to lower health care costs for small businesses 
and all Americans.
  Under the Democrats' costly government-run plan, however, health care 
costs are going to go up and countless small business jobs will be 
destroyed as a result. At the heart of the Democrats' plan is a massive 
tax increase which will fall most heavily on entrepreneurs that run 
small businesses. It also includes the harsh mandate that requires 
employers to provide health insurance or face a steep tax.
  It will kill jobs, plain and simple.

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