[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 MEDICARE IS GOING BROKE, MR. PRESIDENT

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, this administration has failed to 
lead, they have failed to budget, and now they have failed to produce 
any viable solution for saving Medicare. In fact, their solution is to 
let it go broke.
  In 13 short years, Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will run 
completely out of money. Bankrupting this program will leave many of 
our Nation's seniors high and dry and our future generations without a 
health care program to depend upon.
  And guess what? The Obama administration doesn't care. Instead of 
making Medicare reform a top priority, the administration has passed 
the task off to a panel of unqualified bureaucrats--like it was busy 
work that they couldn't be bothered with.
  Mr. Speaker, Medicare is going broke. That's a reality this 
administration has to face. The program is already driving up the 
larger-than-life debt, and it will only get worse from here. I urge the 
administration to at least present us with one option for fixing 
Medicare's present money problem. And if they can't, the House GOP 
doctors have plenty of suggestions of where to begin.

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