[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 121 (Tuesday, July 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7561]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, my good friend from Texas once again comes 
to the well of the House playing politics with Medicare. Communicating 
Medicare? What is wrong with that idea? Standing up in town hall 
meetings saying: Friends, we have a problem, which three Cabinet-level 
secretaries, three appointees of the President admit that Medicare will 
go bankrupt in 7 years if we do nothing. What is wrong with that?
  And taking time to rationalize and formalize a rational policy on 
Medicare, where is the crime there? Far better to be engaged with the 
American public, working to save the program of Medicare, than to march 
to the well of the House as so many of my liberal friends do trying to 
scare senior citizens.
  The fact is, yes, we are trying to communicate the fact that we have 
to save Medicare. And, yes, we are engaged in trying to save the very 
program. Do not let the whine producers, W-H-I-N-E, come to the floor 
again and again and whine and complain.
  Challenge them to be part of the solution and not part of the 
problem.


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