[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     WORK TOGETHER TO SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, let us go over it one more time. According 
to the President's own advisors, the Medicare Trust Fund will be 
bankrupt by the year 2002. Republicans have crafted a bill which will 
save Medicare.
  Let me refer to this chart. In doing so, we have proposed that 
Federal spending on Medicare increase from $178 to $258 billion. Let me 
repeat that. Medicare will go up under the Republican plan. And what is 
the Democrat Medicare plan? Are they working tirelessly to save a 
system that their own leaders maintain is going bankrupt? Not a chance.
  What they are doing is running, one after another, to the camera, the 
nearest camera, to proclaim that Republicans are cutting Medicare. It 
is not true.
  Mr. Speaker, I would say to my Democrat friends that the American 
people are not going to fall for their distortions. But they might 
help. I think the American people are going to wonder why the Democrats 
are not helping to save Medicare. Let us work together to save 
Medicare.


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