Bart Stupak: “there are philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans on Medicare, and there is no doubt that the…”

“there are philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans on Medicare, and there is no doubt that the Republican party would like $270 billion in tax cuts, but why $270 billion in tax cuts in the Medicare program? To pay for the tax breaks for the wealthiest 1.1 percent of all Americans and for tax breaks for corporations. I sit on the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on Commerce. As of October 10 we will begin the Medicare markup. We have never yet seen a bill. We have a 59-page summary. In that summary that we have read from cover to cover, nowhere, nowhere does it say that $270 billion will go and be reinvested into Medicare. Nowhere does it say that. If they wanted to save Medicare, take the $270 billion in tax cuts and put it back into the Medicare system. What is going to happen, Mr. Speaker, is just what the U.S. News & World Report says: Tax exempt. You pay Uncle Sam. How come thousands of American corporations do not? Because they are going to take the $270 billion in tax cuts out of Medicare and give it to the corporations.”