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On the recordMay 12, 1994
the President is giving many Americans an awful and unnecessary choice: They can either keep their job or turn over their health care to Government bureaucrats. You see, the Clintons want to pay for their huge new Government power grab by raising payroll taxes on employers and employees. Small businesses get clobbered and big businesses do not fare so well either. But the biggest loser is the average, American worker. CBO estimates that over 1.2 million jobs may be lost under the Clinton plan. Even the administration admits their plan could cost 600,000 jobs. Now it should not take a Rhodes Scholar to figure out that losing 1 million jobs and turning our health care over to an incompetent, insensitive Government is just plain dumb. We should fix what is wrong with our current health care system instead of completely destroying the best system in the world. Let us pass the Bilirakis-Rowland health care reforms now. And, let us reject the President's false choice and give the American people what they want and deserve--affordable, accessable health care where families decide what is best for themselves and not Government bureaucrats.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Opposing the Clinton health care plan during a House floor debate.

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