[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      MEDICARE'S PROBLEMS SHOULD BE SOLVED INDEPENDENT OF TAX CUTS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is quite telling on how 
excited my Republican colleagues get when democrats tell the truth 
about their plan to cut Medicare by $270 billion. I am sure in their 
districts they got the same reaction that I got in mine when people 
learned that those cuts in Medicare were not going to be recycled to 
improve or extend the longevity of the Medicare Program, but rather 
much of that money was going to be taken away for the first time in 
history from the Medicare Program to pay for tax cuts for some of the 
wealthiest people in this country.
  My constituents understood the need to make adjustments in Medicare. 
What they could not understand was a plan to raid that system, to make 
the problems worse, and for the first time in history take money away 
from Medicare for other purposes in terms of the budget.
  Medicare ought to be solved within the Medicare system, independent 
of the drive to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, to pay for tax cuts 
for the richest families in this country, while stealing the money from 
the elderly who need health care that they can afford.

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