On the recordDecember 2, 2015
I say to Senator Isakson, I recall one of the most vigorous debates we had 5\1/2\ years ago was first the President saying: We won't touch Medicare. Next thing you know, they took $700 billion out of Medicare to spend on new programs, at a time when the Medicare trustees, whose job it is to tell us things like this, said: The program is going to go broke unless we do something about it. We were saying: If you are going to take money away from grandma's Medicare, you better spend it on grandma. But they didn't. It impacted Medicare recipients in Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana.
Said by
Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
