[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        ARE THEY GOING TO DESTROY MEDICARE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT?

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLINK. To the previous speaker, you know I had a friend that said 
he made $100 back in 1960 if he made $125 now. That is not an increase; 
such a thing is inflation. With Medicare there are additional people 
called baby boomers that are going into the system, and, if you go into 
my district in Pennsylvania, in fact if you go across the State of 
Pennsylvania, talk to Republicans, independents, and Democrats who 
happen to run the hospitals, they will tell you that statewide the 
Republican Medicare/Medicaid cuts are going to mean 40,000 health car 
workers are going to be unemployed.
  Mr. Speaker, in my district alone over 1,000 people are going to be 
unemployed because of the Medicare and Medicaid cuts that the 
Republicans are going to make when we include inflation, when we 
include the fact of the increased costs and more people going into the 
system.
  Now I am reminded when I look at the plan on Medicare and Medicaid of 
the comments made by the military spokesman during the Vietnam war. He 
said we had to destroy the village to save it. They are going to 
destroy health care, they are going to destroy Medicaid, in order to 
save it. They are going to destroy Medicare in order to save it.
  I may be a casualty of this war; I may even become a POW, but one 
thing, my colleagues, I will not be, and that is missing in action.

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