Don't Cost My Patients Coverage Or Benefits

Floor Speech

Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, as a physician, a family physician for over 30 years, I must speak out again on health care. The President promised, promised that if you like what you have you, you can keep it. But it appears, with the current Democrat health plan, this is not true, at least when it comes to seniors.

Both the House and Senate proposals contain billions in cuts to Medicare Advantage, a very popular private insurance program that 25 percent of America's seniors have chosen for themselves. With ObamaCare this, the Greatest Generation, will lose benefits they currently enjoy, another broken promise by the President. Many seniors will be forced to pay for services such as supplemental vision or hearing coverage that was previously covered. Consequently, seniors will be dumped back into the regular Medicare that, according to this plan, will have $300 billion stripped from it.

The net result of this broken promise for seniors, some of whom are my patients, will be to have substantial reduction in service, care, and benefits.

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