[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18491]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     WE SHOULD NOT BE DECIMATING THE CARE OF OUR SENIOR POPULATION

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, last week the 
Democrats released a health care bill which essentially said to 
America's seniors ``drop dead.'' Despite their promise to care for our 
seniors, Democrats have decided that it's too expensive to care for my 
senior constituents and everyone else's constituents.
  This bill would cut an additional $156 billion from the Medicare 
Advantage program in order to pay for the government expansion of 
health care for the young, the healthy, and the wealthy.
  This, by the way, is the second attack on our seniors this year. The 
first came in March when the administration announced that Social 
Security recipients would not receive a cost-of-living increase.
  Listen up, America. Seniors have special needs. This bill ignores the 
needs of Florida's health care system. We should be fixing what is 
broke, not decimating the care of our senior population. This is change 
our Nation cannot afford.

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