[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MEDICARE AND MANAGED CARE

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. Mr. Speaker, today is the day, today is 
the day that the Republican majority will pass historic cuts to the 
Medicare Program. Today is the day that they will cut $270 billion out 
of the Medicare Program. Today is the day that they will begin to raise 
premiums and deductibles for people, like Herb McCulloch, who lives on 
$240 a month and they are going to ask him to come up with an 
additional $100 a month in out-of-pocket expenses.
  Why are they doing this? Because they want to pass a $245 billion tax 
cut. Better than 52 percent of that tax cut is going to go to 
individuals and families earning $100,000 or more.
  Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House, their solution is to 
put elderly into managed care programs, managed care. You know what it 
means. It means managed to deny care to the very senior citizens they 
propose to protect.
  It is not fair. It is not right. As Democrats, we are going to say 
``no.''
  Today Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.

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