[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4679]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            THE BOTTOM LINE WITH MEDICARE: FIX IT OR LOSE IT

  (Mr. SAXTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, for the last decade I have represented a 
district that has as many senior citizens in it as any other district 
save one or two in the country. I think it is totally unfair to our 
older Americans to pretend there is no problem with Medicare and try to 
say that the Republican Party is out to make cuts in Medicare to give 
the rich people a tax cut. It is simply not true.
  Under our plan, Medicare increases from $4,700 a participant to over 
$6,000. As a matter of fact, it is $6,300 per participant. That is not 
a cut.
  The bottom line with Medicare is, and their party needs to figure 
this out, fix it or lose it, because the President himself says it will 
be bankrupt in 7 years.

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