[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6381-6382]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          THE CMS REPORT IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)

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  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I am very happy that our Republican 
colleagues have brought up the CMS report because, while they try to 
proclaim that this is some kind of revelation, what it actually 
verifies is what we've been saying all along, which is that we will 
expand the coverage in this country, not by the 30 million people, 
which was originally projected, but now by 34 million people. For a 1 
percent increase in our total health care costs, which is something 
that we always said we were going to do, we are going to insure 11 
percent more of the population. That's a pretty good deal.
  Yet there was another big surprise in that CMS report, not just that 
we are going to insure more people than we thought, but that we will 
extend the life of Medicare's trust fund, not just by 9 years as we 
thought, but now by 12 years--all the way to 2029.
  Yes, there was some news in the CMS report. It is good news for the 
American people; it is good news for Medicare, and it is good news for 
the Democratic Congress, which did this great service for the American 
people.

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