[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 158 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CUTS IN MEDICARE WOULD HURT OUR MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to protest as strongly as I 
can the disastrous cuts the Republicans are proposing for Medicare and 
Medicaid. In my small State of Vermont, 67,000 senior citizens and 
disabled Vermonters will have to pay higher premiums and higher 
deductibles for a weakened Medicare system. Most of those 67,000 
Vermonters today are having a hard time paying for their prescription 
drugs and other health care needs. Cuts in Medicare will be absolutely 
disastrous for them. To add insult to injury, the Republican Medicaid 
cuts will be terrible for low-income seniors, for the children, who are 
the most vulnerable people in our society. In Vermont, at least 20,000 
Vermonters, low-income kids, low-income elderly, and low-income 
disabled, stand at risk of losing their entire Medicaid coverage. That 
is wrong.

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