[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 77 (Thursday, May 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SENIORS TARGETED BY REPUBLICAN MEDICARE PLAN

  (Ms McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, Medicare protections against the extra-
billing of seniors are the latest target of Republican leaders. As it 
stands now, health care providers are not allowed to extra-bill seniors 
for services paid for by Medicare. Under the Republicans' latest 
Medicare proposal, however, seniors would become sitting ducks for 
unscrupulous providers who want to make a fast buck by extra-billing 
the sick elderly.
  At the same time, Mr. Speaker, Republican leaders are perfectly happy 
to let gluttonous defense contractors overbill the American taxpayer. 
Rather than clamping down on military contractors' overbilling the U.S. 
taxpayer, they will get an extra $12.4 billion, thanks to the 
Republicans.
  Under a Republican-controlled Congress, defense contractors and the 
health care industry have free reign to give our seniors and taxpayers 
a B-2-sized wedgie with Newt's blessing.

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