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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 27, 2009
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Health and Health Care

Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, the senior citizens in my district are scared, literally scared. They ask me, What are the Democrats planning to do to my Medicare and Medicaid? And I have to tell them, I really don't know because the Democrats are hiding behind closed doors in the dark and keeping the rest of us out of the picture. So we don't know for sure. Except we do know this: They are planning massive cuts to Medicare, upwards of $500 billion, and massive cuts to Medicare Advantage that will result in a loss of health care for millions of seniors. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that Advantage cut would be around $162 billion. As a result, Medicare Advantage plans will drop out of the program, limiting seniors' choices and causing many of them to lose their current health care coverage. Cuts to Medicare Advantage will have an exceptionally harmful effect on seniors in rural areas like mine. I urge us to reject this plan.


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