[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3734]
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                             MORE MEDICARE

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I come to the well once again heartened by 
the remarks of my colleague from the great State of Ohio. I just wish 
we could get past some of the name calling and some of the, to be 
frank, disinformation that has infested itself here on the banks of the 
Potomac; to wit, fact, yesterday the Treasury Department reports that 
Medicare is losing money, $4.2 billion in the first 6 months of this 
year.
  Yet what does the minority leader say on television? Last summer, 
when queried about allowing Medicare to grow at a rate less than 10 
percent a year, he says, and I am quoting him, the reforms the majority 
tried to make amounted to this, ``This is a hoax.''
  Mr. Speaker, it is no hoax. The hoax comes when those on the left 
would deliberately employ medi-scare tactics to try and get through the 
next election rather than to save and transform Medicare for the next 
generation. We are all to be held accountable. Let us deal with the 
truth.

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