[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MEDICARE EXPANSION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, this is in the nature of a public service 
announcement. If you are a woman in this society who gets your health 
insurance through your husband and who is younger than your husband, 
you should be listening to what President Clinton is offering to the 
American people. He says that if you are going to have no health 
insurance when your husband gets to 65, you can buy into the Medicare 
program at cost, no additional cost to the program. I sit on the 
Medicare Commission. This will not destroy Medicare for anybody else 
because it is a pay-as-you-go plan. But if you see your future as a 
place where you are not going to have health insurance, you are like 
hundreds of thousands of people in this society today between the age 
of 55 and 65 who have been offered a program by the President. The 
leadership of the House of Representatives refuses to take that up. 
They do not care about your health insurance. Pick up the phone and 
give them a call.

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