[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SAVING MEDICARE WITHOUT MUCH HELP

  (Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, we have a choice in this House.
  We can preserve, protect, and improve Medicare--or we can watch it go 
bankrupt--as President Clinton's Cabinet has warned will happen--in 
less than 7 years.
  These are facts. Doesn't sound like much of a choice, does it?
  But liberal Democrats are going to try anything possible to frighten 
our senior citizens into believing Republicans want to cut Medicare.
  Meanwhile, the G-O-P plan calls for increasing each Medicare 
patient's annual spending from $4,800 to $6,700 per year by 2002.
  I'm a graduate of the Kentucky public school system--and back home 
that's not a cut, that's an increase.
  I encourage our friends on the left to offer more ideas and fewer 
scare tactics.
  We can preserve, protect and improve Medicare. The people in the real 
world, the private sector, have improved their health care system these 
past few years.
  I'd say we ought to try and do the same.
  

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