William M. Thomas: “And in addition to that, as the gentlewoman well knows, an employer mandate is forever. The subsidies that make it more…”

“And in addition to that, as the gentlewoman well knows, an employer mandate is forever. The subsidies that make it more enticing to get in there certainly will not be there forever, and it will be an ever-increasing burden. And in addition to that, we need to remember, as we said earlier, that this is not a continuation of the old structure. It is an entirely new mandate. And because of that, even the administration has admitted, for example, in front of our committee that if the President's bill were to go into effect, there would have to be a $15 billion to $20 billion new bureaucracy in the Department of Commerce to deal with the collection of moneys from the employer and the distribution and payment to either the health structure or some other intermediary to pay for the cost, because it is not a continuation of the current system.”