[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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              REPUBLICAN CHANGES TO MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, out west where I came from people used 
to worry about snake oil salesmen, but we pretty much got that under 
control. Now we have a new type of snake oil salesmen on the other side 
of the aisle.
  I think we heard in prior discussions going on this morning that we 
are not going to be allowed to discuss their compassionate, wonderful, 
no pain changes to Medicare and Medicaid. We are just to trust them.
  We are going to have 1 day of hearing. My fast math says that is 
about 1 minute per every 120 pages of changes they have in their bill. 
Oh, I am sure we will get it.
  I want to tell my colleagues, as a Westerner who grew up with the 
tradition of snake oil salesmen, that we thought were behind us, 
beware. Beware. If their cuts are so painless, so harmless, so 
futuristic, so wonderful, why can we not have time to look at them? Why 
can we not air them in the sunshine? This should not be a fungus, this 
should be a bill.


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