[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 121 (Tuesday, July 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        MEDICARE AT A CROSSROADS

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, Medicare is at a crucial crossroads. 
President Clinton's Medicare board of trustees stated in their April 
1995 report, and I quote ``. . . the fund is projected to be exhausted 
in 2001 . . .'' In other words, if we do nothing--as the liberal 
Democrats suggest--millions of Medicare recipients will be denied 
services. But, the obstructionist liberals would rather criticize the 
strengthening of Medicare than do something to save it. Medicare is a 
large Government bureaucracy that does not offer the degree of choice 
seniors deserve. Republicans are going to strengthen and simplify 
Medicare by controlling its skyrocketing costs and giving seniors more 
choices in services. Everyone agrees that Medicare is going broke, but 
only the Republicans in Congress are posing a solution to that problem. 
I invite my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to end their 
empty rhetoric and join our effort to save Medicare.

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