[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              DO NOT RUSH MEDICARE PLAN THROUGH THE HOUSE

  (Mr. FORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORD. Mr. Speaker, the trustees and experts as they relate to the 
Medicare trust fund have indicated there is only $98 billion needed in 
order to bring about the solvency for the Medicare Program, not the 
$270 billion that is being proposed by the Republicans. The Republicans 
are rushing their reckless Medicare plan through the House Committee on 
Ways and Means, and the only thing we have seen as of today is a 60-
page press release.
  To increase the Medicare part B premiums on the senior citizens of 
this country, to double those premiums over the next 6 or 7 years on 
the seniors who are on fixed, limited incomes is absolutely wrong. I 
would hope the Republicans would get that message and listen to what 
Naomi Cutrer said in the USA Today newspaper yesterday, that it is a 
shame for the Republicans to rush it through and to add these increases 
and to bring about this hardship in the Medicare Program.

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