Pete Domenici: “Home health care. Right. Now, if you wanted to fix that trust fund without doing anything real, then you would say…”

“Home health care. Right. Now, if you wanted to fix that trust fund without doing anything real, then you would say, ``Let us not pay for the fastest growing part of Medicare. Take it out.'' So the President's budget says, ``We are not going to pay for that out of the trust fund and, seniors, you ought to be thrilled; I am making your trust fund more solvent.'' My mind has not yet permitted me to reduce this to some simple statement, but it is smoke and mirrors at least. It is gimmickry at its worst.”