[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25788-25789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mrs. BIGGERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

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  Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Speaker, for the first time since 1975, seniors 
will not be receiving a Social Security cost-of-living increase in 
fiscal year 2010. And now on top of that, seniors are worried about 
their Medicare plans. In almost every senior center that I have visited 
in my district in the last few months, 50 percent of the residents have 
told me they are on Medicare Advantage plans. These seniors like the 
plans that they have, and they want to keep them.
  The administration has said many times that if you like the health 
care plan you have, you can keep it. That will not happen with Medicare 
Advantage, and seniors are upset and angry.
  Let's support health care reform for all Americans that doesn't harm 
the plans that seniors rely on. Let's help all Americans.

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