[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 31, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 MEDICARE: SAVING IT OR DESTROYING IT?

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, last week the Gingrich plan passed 
Congress. If you make $20,000 a year, your taxes will go up. If you 
make 10 times that amount of money, you will get a several thousand 
dollar tax break.
  The Gingrich plan cuts student loans to middle class families and 
cuts Medicare $270 billion in order to pay for a tax break for 
America's wealthiest people.
  Why do they want to destroy Medicare? Listen to Speaker Gingrich's 
own words when he spoke to a group of insurance executives:

       Now, we didn't get rid of it in round one because we don't 
     think that that's politically smart and we don't think that's 
     the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's 
     going to wither on the vine because we think people are 
     voluntarily going to leave it.

  Madam Speaker, that is wrong to want to destroy Medicare, 
particularly at the same time that you say you are trying to save it.

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