Julian Bond said "Personally, I would like to see Medicare kept healthy, not only for those who are on Medicare right now, but those who will be coming on, people my age and people younger. We are going to have to make changes to slow the rate of growth. One proposal to save $70 to $80 billion was estimated only to save it for maybe 2 more years. I do not think, Mr. President, we ought to go through all this battle and all this heartache and say that Medicare will not go bankrupt in 2002, it will go bankrupt in 2005. We can do better than that. We have to implement real reforms which will assure the financial solvency of this critical program well into the foreseeable future. I hope we would stop the posturing and stop the ads and stop the claims that Medicare is being savaged. It begins to appear to me, Mr. President, that there is something else at work here." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 3, 1996

Personally, I would like to see Medicare kept healthy, not only for those who are on Medicare right now, but those who will be coming on, people my age and people younger. We are going to have to make changes to slow the rate of growth. One proposal to save $70 to $80 billion was estimated only to save it for maybe 2 more years. I do not think, Mr. President, we ought to go through all this battle and all this heartache and say that Medicare will not go bankrupt in 2002, it will go bankrupt in 2005. We can do better than that. We have to implement real reforms which will assure the financial solvency of this critical program well into the foreseeable future. I hope we would stop the posturing and stop the ads and stop the claims that Medicare is being savaged. It begins to appear to me, Mr. President, that there is something else at work here.

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Julian Bond

Alabama

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the need for reforms to ensure the financial health of Medicare.

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