[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9794]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           EXTREME CUTS NOT NEEDED IN ORDER TO SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, just so my colleagues know that 
there are two sides to the debate, Medicare is not going bankrupt 
until, not going bankrupt until, the year 2002, and we can change 
Medicare by cutting over the next few years and increasing 
beneficiaries' costs may be $90 billion, not $270 billion. That is why 
the Republicans are scared, because the American people are not buying 
what they are trying to sell them. It is a tax cut of $245 billion over 
that same 7 years and a Medicare cut of $270 billion.
  Mr. Speaker, the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, the 
AARP, finally came off of dead center and said it is wrong. We even 
have a freshman Republican doctor who has been quoted as saying, ``I 
guarantee you that these reductions will be bad for quality health 
care, not just for our senior citizens, but also for working people.''
  Hello. Earth to the other side of the aisle. Listen to your own 
people. These extreme, and that is extreme, cuts do not need to be made 
to save Medicare, only $90 billion, not $270 billion.

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