[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REPUBLICAN TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES WILL LEAD TO RATIONING OF HEALTH 
                                  CARE

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, Republicans love to say that they are 
not cutting Medicare and Medicaid, they are only slowing their growth. 
What they do not tell us is that Medicare and Medicaid reform is 
actually health care rationing. House Republicans want to cut Medicare 
and want to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, for 
wealthy special interests and to pay for star wars. Republicans want to 
force the elderly into HMO's and to health maintenance organizations 
which will only lead to rationing of health care and will lead to 
taking away of physician choice. Republicans want to do that all 
because some people in this House want to cut taxes on millionaires, 
cut taxes on millionaires forcing Medicare and Medicaid patients into 
rationing and taking away their physician choice. Mr. Speaker, it 
simply does not make sense.

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