[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4968]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


DEMOCRATS ARE DISINTERESTED IN SAVING MEDICARE, BUT ONLY USE THE ISSUE 
                         TO WAGE CLASS WARFARE

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, it is clear by the statements by 
President Clinton and most other liberal Democrats over the last week 
that they are not interested in saving Medicare. They did not propose 
any alternative, they did not propose any plan. Instead, they want to 
use the imminent insolvency of Medicare as an opportunity to wage class 
warfare.
  Let me quote the trustees' report, the trustees appointed by 
President Clinton: They said:

       The HI Trust Fund does not meet the trustees' short-range 
     test of financial adequacy. The fund is projected to be 
     exhausted in the year 2001, 6 years from the present.

  For our final math lesson for the day, when we increase Medicare from 
$4,700 a year for medical benefits received by a senior citizen to 
$6,300 a year for medical benefits received per senior citizen, that is 
an increase; $4,700 this year, $6,300 in the year 2002. That is an 
increase. No matter what the liberal left tells us, we are increasing 
Medicare.

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