[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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     FLORIDA SENIORS DISTURBED BY AARP'S ENDORSEMENT OF CLINTONCARE

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, today's Washington Post reports 
that the AARP has endorsed Clinton-Gephardt's sweeping expansion of 
Medicare coverage to include the unemployed and other uninsured 
workers. Coupled with nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts, this 
expansion is a recipe for disaster for seniors.
  This massive new entitlement is also the final step toward a single-
payer, Government-controlled system, and again, seniors will be the 
first victims. Britain's single-payer system, for instance, often 
denies renal dialysis to elderly patients because the cost is deemed 
too high.
  Their members in my district do not agree with the AARP's blanket 
endorsement of Clintoncare. According to Florence J. Irving of Sun City 
Center, ``the AARP does not speak for many of its members.'' William G. 
Smith of Holmes Beach, writes ``the AARP `leadership' has become part 
of the `Washington Establishment'-- [they] do not represent [their] 
membership vis-a-vis health care reform.''
  Mr. Speaker, what is going on over in the Washington offices of the 
AARP?

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