[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          CUT MEDICARE PARTS A, B, C AND D TO FUND ``PART E''?

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, the House may attempt to rebrand their $1 
trillion government health care plan as something they will try to call 
Medicare Part E. To save their own brand, they are willing to cheapen 
Medicare's. Medicare currently cares for seniors, but under this bill, 
Medicare will attempt to cover millions more with much less money.
  Look at CBO's accounting of the Senate bill. It shows what the House 
plans to do. To fund a new government health care bill, Congress will 
cut Medicare Parts A, B, C and D. CBO reports they will cut Medicare 
Part A for hospitals $128 billion; Medicare Part B for doctors, $130 
billion; Medicare Part C, Advantage, $133 billion; Medicare Part D, 
drugs, $20 billion. The bill also raises $424 billion in taxes in the 
teeth of the great recession.
  All of this to fund a new government health care program that will 
not care for a single senior, but will use their health care dollars to 
help support a government program Congress attempts to call Medicare 
Part E.
  Do you think seniors will be fooled by this?

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