[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25794]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SENIOR CITIZENS' MEDICARE COVERAGE

  (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, it is so ironic that this 
Congress is debating the means of covering the uninsured while 
Democrats are planning to cut the existing coverage of those who need 
it most--our senior citizens.
  Nearly 70,000 of those senior citizens will be affected and live in 
my district, Mr. Speaker. Those senior citizens will experience drastic 
changes to their Medicare coverage as a result of the $500 million 
Medicare Advantage cut imposed by the Democrats' bill, H.R. 3200.
  Democrats may silence all of our Republican bills, but they are wrong 
if they believe Republicans will keep silent and allow senior citizens 
in America, who have already spent the majority of their lives 
contributing to this Nation, to be forced to give up the health care 
coverage they so vitally need in order to pay for a socialist, 
government takeover of health care which has failed in every State and 
in every country that has been unwise enough to allow it to happen.

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