[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8812]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                THE REPUBLICAN COVERT PLAN FOR MEDICARE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, ``silence,'' we have just heard. Silence is 
what we have gotten when it comes to the covert Republican plan to hike 
the costs of Medicare for all of America's seniors.
  Mr. Speaker, for months Speaker Gingrich and cohorts have been going 
around behind closed doors saying to themselves, America's seniors are 
getting off cheap. They are just not paying enough for health care. 
They have got a plan, and it has been whispered in the corridors of 
this Capitol, to increase deductibles and increase the monthly premiums 
for America's seniors; to increase the costs that they have to pay if 
they want to stay out of the nursing home or get home health care; to 
increase the cost of a lab test that a doctor might have, because they 
think America's seniors are not paying enough for Medicare.
  There are many words to describe it. Covert, secret, mysterious, 
concealed, hugger-muggered, veiled, tricky, latent, shrouded, 
suppressed, cloaked. But the best one is ``wrong.'' It is just wrong to 
do this to America's seniors.

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