[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25443]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              DON'T COST MY PATIENTS COVERAGE OR BENEFITS

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, as a physician, a family physician for over 
30 years, I must speak out again on health care. The President 
promised, promised that if you like what you have you, you can keep it. 
But it appears, with the current Democrat health plan, this is not 
true, at least when it comes to seniors.
  Both the House and Senate proposals contain billions in cuts to 
Medicare Advantage, a very popular private insurance program that 25 
percent of America's seniors have chosen for themselves. With ObamaCare 
this, the Greatest Generation, will lose benefits they currently enjoy, 
another broken promise by the President. Many seniors will be forced to 
pay for services such as supplemental vision or hearing coverage that 
was previously covered. Consequently, seniors will be dumped back into 
the regular Medicare that, according to this plan, will have $300 
billion stripped from it.
  The net result of this broken promise for seniors, some of whom are 
my patients, will be to have substantial reduction in service, care, 
and benefits.

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