[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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        ENDORSEMENT OF HOUSE LEADERSHIP HEALTH CARE PLAN BY AARP

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, as the health care debate moves forward during 
the next couple of weeks, I think it is extremely significant to note 
an important endorsement today. That endorsement of the House 
leadership plan by the American Association of Retired Persons. Yes, 
the AARP, one of the leading spokespersons for senior citizens in our 
country, because the AARP and the 33 million people they represent know 
that the House leadership plan protects that most important program to 
seniors, Medicare.
  They know that the House leadership plan does indeed provide 
outpatient prescription drugs. They know that the House leadership plan 
begins to make some inroads into that knotty problem of long-term 
health care, home health care. And, finally, senior citizens know that 
Medicare, without the kind of action proposed by the House leadership 
plan, will keep getting squeezed more and more and more.
  So what the important action of today by the AARP means is that the 
grandparents of this country are standing up to say we want our 
grandchildren to have the same kind of coverage.

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