Joe Cunningham: “the gentleman on the other side cannot hide the truth. Associated health care plans, if you have a union or large…”

“the gentleman on the other side cannot hide the truth. Associated health care plans, if you have a union or large business that has maybe 3,000 or 4,000 employees, they can go to a health care organization and negotiate lower rates because it spreads out the risk. We are asking that maybe all the bakers get together, all the barbers get together, little groups that can form into larger groups so that they can negotiate those health care plans with lower rates. If we have lower rates, we are going to have more people access into them, so the gentleman is just flat wrong. Another gentleman talked about taxes. The gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt) just last week said he wants to raise taxes. In 1993, he was proud of it. They raised taxes on the middle class. We want to give it back to the American people for medical savings accounts, not have campaign finance fund-raisers with Jane Fonda.”