Political Quotes

“and my colleagues, the foundation of the Clinton health care plan is a requirement that employers shall pay 80 percent of the cost of health care coverage for their employees. It is estimated by a number of different organizations that this would cost 3 million Americans their jobs. So as congressional committees begin to look at various health care proposals, including the Clinton plan, they are having their doubts about the employer mandate. So what they are doing is they are beginning to look at smaller mandates. ``Let us just require employers to pay part of it, less than 80 percent; let us begin to give subsidies to small employers,'' they say. It is the classic strategy of getting the camel's nose under the tent before we stick them with a big bill later on. We need to fix the current system, we need to help the working poor get affordable health care insurance, but not at the cost of losing their job. Let us oppose employer mandates; let us fix the current system and let us do for the American people what they want, health care, affordable for each and every American.”