[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5676-5677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DON'T DISMANTLE MEDICARE

  (Ms. CHU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, today the Republicans want to shut down 
government. Tomorrow they want to dismantle Medicare. If the shutdown 
weren't enough, the Republican Party just released next year's road-to-
ruin budget. And, unbelievably, the people they have chosen to target 
are America's seniors.
  This budget ends the Medicare guarantee as we know it. It turns 
Medicare into a voucher system where you would have to put your fate 
back into the hands of private insurance companies. It results in 
seniors paying more for Medicare. This plan shifts costs onto seniors 
and cuts Medicare at a time when seniors need health care the most.
  We must take the target off the backs of our seniors and off of 
Medicare, a guarantee that seniors have earned through a lifetime of 
hard work.

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