[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                REPUBLICAN BUDGET AND NATION'S CHILDREN

  (Mr. POMEROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, we had a long day in the House Committee on 
the Budget yesterday. I am here to tell Members about one aspect of the 
Republican plan to balance the budget that they do not want to talk 
much about. That is about the deep cuts in Medicare, $184 billion over 
the next 7 years. And the impact of these would take health insurance 
away from 5 million kids that now have it. It is taking a health care 
problem in this country and making it much worse by depriving 5 million 
kids of health insurance coverage.
  The plan does not stop there, because it also assaults the elderly 
that depend upon Medicaid to help them defray the cost of nursing home 
expenses when they have exhausted their personal accounts. What will 
happen to some in a nursing home that has exhausted their life savings? 
Will they be put out on the street when the Republican Medicaid cuts 
begin to hit and there are no more funds available? Will they be forced 
to move in with their children who are already struggling to make it 
and provide for the college education of their children?
  These are questions that need to be answered as we flesh out the 
Republican budget. Disaster for kids; disaster for seniors.

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