[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 198 (Wednesday, December 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS HEALTH CARE TO PAY FOR TAX BREAKS TO WELL OFF

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, one only has to examine the priorities in 
the Gingrich budget to understand for whom the Republican Party stands. 
The $500 billion in corporate welfare is going untouched while seniors, 
pregnant women, and the disabled are expected to absorb $433 billion in 
health care cuts.
  And yes, these are health care cuts because Medicare and Medicaid 
spending will not keep pace with medical inflation. When you consider 
that Medicare and Medicaid care for the oldest and sickest people in 
our society, any reductions that do not keep pace with medical 
inflation are cuts, plain and simple.
  So now, Mr. Haley Barbour, please send your million dollars to Grady 
Hospital in Atlanta, with an explanation that the Gingrich budget does 
not cut Medicare and Medicaid to pay for tax breaks to the well off.

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