[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 27, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REPUBLICAN PLAN TO END MEDICARE

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Madam Speaker, here we go again. This week, the House will 
vote on yet another Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it.
  America's seniors have given a lifetime of service to our Nation. 
They deserve better than to be left out in the cold.
  If it becomes law, the Republican budget will end the Medicare 
guarantee of secure health coverage for our seniors and replace 
Medicare with a voucher system that would, instead, give our seniors a 
premium support payment.
  Even worse, the Republican budget gives new tax breaks to 
millionaires, billionaires, and Big Oil companies. Economists agree the 
Republican budget plan would destroy 4.1 million American jobs by the 
end of 2014.
  Last year the American people weren't fooled by the dangerous and 
unfair House Republican budget. If it didn't work the first time, it's 
not going to work this time.
  Let us work together on a bipartisan budget that does not favor the 
super-rich over seniors and the middle class.

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