Bill Clinton: “One of you asked a question about the employees, too, about how they could pay and whether they could pay. Don't forget…”

“One of you asked a question about the employees, too, about how they could pay and whether they could pay. Don't forget that under this tax bill that just passed, most families, working people with children with incomes of under $27,000 a year, are going to get a tax reduction which will help them to deal--if they have no health care costs now--with the upfront cost of this. Most of them will have a tax reduction that exceeds what their 20 percent cost of the premium will be. I think the real problem, by and large, there may be some--I can conceive of economic circumstances under which these problems will occur that you talked about. But I think the real problem here in the way the plan is drawn now is the people in his category. Administrator Bowles. Can we close with one----”