[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H10313-H10314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     MANAGED CARE WORKS IN MEDICARE

  (Mr. BLUTE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUTE. Mr. Speaker, perhaps we will have to wait a year or two 
until our friends on the other side of the aisle come over to our way 
of thinking. Similarly, we are now hearing that President Clinton is 
saying that the 1993 tax increase was wrong and not the right thing to 
do and perhaps too large. Yet we heard from Members on the other side 
how important that was, and now President Clinton has come over to our 
way of thinking.
  I think our colleagues on the other side will come over to our way of 
thinking on Medicare because we need to save this important program. 
Under the Republican plan Medicare will grow by $86 billion over the 
next 7 

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years and we will institute reforms that are already working in the 
private sector.
  In my home district of Worcester County, MA, 60 percent of my 
constituents are already in managed care. It works, it provides quality 
care for seniors under Medicare right now, and it can be used to reform 
our health care system and reduce the devastating rate of increase we 
are now seeing.
  Mr. Speaker, pass this bill. It is the right thing to do for America.

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