[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6836]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                THE REPUBLICAN PLAN FOR CUTTING MEDICARE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. My colleagues, I want to focus now on all of the details 
that the Republicans have given to us today and every other day in the 
course of this debate about the future of Medicare. Here it is. Here is 
the plan as they have described it here on the floor, a complete and 
total blank, and I would challenge the majority leader, the gentleman 
from Texas, or any other member of the Republican majority, to have the 
courage to come and fill in this blank page, because the media has 
already done it by investigating their secret task forces, and they 
have told the people of America that what this plan calls for is more 
copayments, more in higher deductibles, more in higher premiums that 
will come right out of the pocket of America's seniors.
  The majority leader has just tried to amplify on his remarks. What 
else did he say on Tuesday according to the Houston Chronicle? ``I 
resent the fact that I'm 65 and must enroll in Medicare, but I'm not 
dumb enough to think I'm going to go out there and lay out a plan.''
  That is why we have a blank. They do not want the American people to 
know what they are doing in cutting Medicare.

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