[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7707]
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                     MEDICARE: THE DEMOCRATIC VIEW

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday I turn 55 and Medicare turns 
30. I think I have got a better chance of survival than Medicare does 
because the Republicans do not have quite as much oversight on my 
future as they do on Medicare's.
  I will tell you why they are robbing Medicare--the same reason they 
rob banks. That's where the money is.
  Medicare needs some reforms, we know that. But you take the money you 
save from the reforms and you put it back in Medicare. If Medicare is 
in trouble, which we all agree it could be because of the rising cost 
of health care, you certainly do not take $270 billion out of it to 
fund a tax cut.
  Look, this is all about a tax cut for the rich. That is all it is 
about. What we are saying is that it is totally unfair to take the 
money out of the pockets of the elderly who had planned on this, who 
had counted on this, and they do not want to see one more Government 
promise undercut.

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