[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THE REPUBLICANS' OUTRAGEOUS MEDICARE CUTS

  (Mr. HILLIARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HILLIARD. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans' budget cut Medicare 
funding by $250 billion, and it is outrageous. Have they no shame?
  The Republicans should not force those persons among us, who have the 
greatest needs, to suffer.
  What my Republican colleagues are doing to our elderly and our 
disabled is disgraceful.
  I am extremely concerned that our rural and inner-city hospitals are 
at serious risk. These huge Republican cuts, along with the steady 
increase in uncompensated care burden, would place these hospitals in 
jeopardy, and the hospitals have limited or no ability to shift the 
costs to payers.
  The quality and access to needed health care is severely threatened.
  The Republican's Medicare cuts are outrageous.
  Because they refuse to listen to logic, it is my prayer that the 
American public hear me and that they will insist that this budget be 
vetoed.

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