[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8600-H8601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             MEDICARE CUTS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican plan to cut $270 billion 
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Medicare to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy will cost seniors $1,000 
more a year and will mean that they will lose their choice of doctors. 
Amazingly, Republicans now say they are only following the Medicare 
trustees instructions and trying to save the program from insolvency.
  But, yesterday, the Medicare trustees, themselves, spoke out on the 
Republican plan. In an editorial published in the Los Angeles Times, 
the trustees called the Republican Medicare cuts excessive and said 
those cuts would seriously hurt seniors.
  And, contrary to Republican claims, the Medicare trustees say that 
the trust fund is not in a sudden crisis, but has actually improved 
over the past few years. As the trustees said yesterday: ``The only 
thing that has really changed is the political needs of those who are 
hoping to use major Medicare cuts for other purposes.'' As we know, 
those other purposes are tax cuts for the wealthy.

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