It is sufficient. Let me tell you, it is more than sufficient. The President has identified the money, $124 billion to provide new benefits for the entire Medicare population. All we are doing is taking that money and directing it to the 7…
William M. Thomas
The Public Record
The first thing you do is examine those 37 million to find out who could afford it, but given the failure to change insurance laws in the country today on a uniform basis, they refuse to do it. Find out those who are more than willing to…
Please, please, please. The 37 million uninsured are those that you said Government should support.
I suggest that we take a look at the way in which win money is currently spent today for those people who could otherwise afford their insurance but have Government subsidies for them. Let us begin with means testing Medicare, so that…
If you promise me that that is what we will do tomorrow morning in the Health Care Subcommittee, we can lock that up right away.
Let us do it tomorrow. Let us take all of that money you are saving under the President's plan in cutting Medicare and pay for those people's coverage instead of giving millionaires prescription drug benefits, then,
Let us means test Medicare and give it to the people who really need the money. I am with you on that.
What I agreed to was means testing Medicare, taking money away from people who are getting it now, who really don't deserve it, and giving it to the people who do, and I agree with the gentleman that those people need it. It is available…
Mr. Stark, I did not ask you to cite their credentials. I asked you to tell me why.
Mr. President, price controls produce shortages, black markets, and reduced quality. Your plan, the Clinton Plan, sets the fees charged by doctors and hospitals, caps annual spending on health care, limits insurance premiums, and imposes…





