[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   MEDICARE CUTS WILL BE DEVASTATING

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, I have stood in this well before and I have 
defended the policies of my leadership, and I have also taken them on 
in some instances. So I think that I have got some credibility that I 
do not necessarily go along party lines with every issue. But when it 
comes to Medicare cuts, the Democrats are completely correct and the 
Republicans are completely wrong. I tell you this after going 
throughout the Fourth Congressional District of Pennsylvania and 
talking to Republican doctors and Republican hospital administrators 
who say, ``Congressman, we are going to lose 1,000 health care jobs in 
your district if the Republican plan goes through to cut Medicare this 
deeply.''
  You see, in my district, 1 in 5 residents are on Medicare. Many of 
those on Medicare are elderly and poor, and are also on Medicaid. They 
cannot afford these kind of cuts. And is it a cut or isn't it a cut? 
When you get less and pay more for it, it is a cut. And when you take a 
look at the dollars, and you know those dollars are equal to the amount 
of dollars that we are giving wealthy people, those who make over 
$200,000, in tax cuts, then you know it is a direct offset we are 
taking from the elderly poor to give to the rich.

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