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Bill Clinton: Let me ask you a favor. Would you send to me personally your calculations? Because I know we've got to go on to other…

On the recordApril 7, 1994
Let me ask you a favor. Would you send to me personally your calculations? Because I know we've got to go on to other questions, but let me remind you, if it added 4.5 percent to the cost of doing business and his labor costs were only one-third of his total costs, then all you have to do is multiply it by three, it would have to be 13.5 percent of payroll. And that maximum is 7.9 percent. So it's just--we can't get there. Send it to me; we'll work on it. Mr. Anschutz. I'm sure a lot of this health care reform debate is going to be over numbers.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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