[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 128 (Thursday, August 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        WE NEED TO SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. DICKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DICKEY. Madam Speaker, I think I am going to introduce a new word 
to this thing, counter-consultants' advice.
  What we have here is we have consultants who are trying to take the 
Medicare issue and make it an issue of political proportions. Then the 
counter consultants come back and say, ``No, we can't do this. We have 
got to respond to this politically.''
  We just have a contrast here with the previous speaker and myself. I 
think we all have something in common. I think we all agree, we all 
agree we must save Medicare. We all agree that if we continue like we 
are doing, with the overutilization and the rising costs, that Medicare 
is going to go broke.
  So what we need to do in this particular discussion is keep the 
consultants and the counter-consultants out of it.
  Look at the facts. In 2002, Medicare will go bankrupt, and $1 billion 
in Medicare part A will be spent over, above, what we have to spend.
  We need to save Medicare, and we all agree on that.

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