[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 58 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 58

   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any government mandated 
 health care reform should be included on budget and should be subject 
      to the same budget rules as other tax and spending measures.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 26 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

  Mr. Gregg submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any government mandated 
 health care reform should be included on budget and should be subject 
      to the same budget rules as other tax and spending measures.

Whereas, the Administration's proposed health care reform plan would constitute 
        the largest expansion of Federal entitlements in history;
Whereas, the proposed health care premiums would be mandatory taxes;
Whereas, the Administration's proposed health care reform plan would constitute 
        a massive tax increase;
Whereas, the costs of any health care reform plan that is kept off budget would 
        be difficult to control and account for;
Whereas, placing health care reform off budget means that it would be exempt 
        from annual budget reviews and would have no meaningful restraints on 
        growth;
Whereas, the Office of Management and Budget's own risk tables, and past and 
        present entitlement growth trends show that the Administration's 
        proposed health care reform plan could increase Federal budget deficits 
        by up to $800 billion by the year 2000;
Whereas, the Federal Government has already run up massive unfunded liabilities 
        outside the budget process; and
Whereas, the attempt to place the health care reform plan off budget is a move 
        to hide the true cost of the plan from the American public: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that any government mandated 
health care reform should be included on budget and should be subject 
to the same budget rules as other tax and spending measures.

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