[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                MEDICARE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I was at home this weekend in the good 
Seventh District of Tennessee reading the Nashville Tennessean and 
there on the front page of the business section was a story with the 
headline, ``Some Seniors Begin to See Benefit From Medicare.''
  Mr. Speaker, if you had been listening to the Democrats for the past 
6 months, you would be stunned that the seniors were going to see 
benefits from Medicare. But here it is in black and white. This is what 
the story says:
  ``Seniors who do belong to a Medicare HMO have been showered with new 
benefits thanks to the Medicare Modernization Act Congress passed last 
year.''
  And this is all before the prescription drug card and the eventual 
prescription drug benefit even take place. Clearly, the Medicare reform 
President Bush and this Congress passed is helping seniors and that is 
exactly what it is supposed to do.

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