Patricia Schroeder: “The gentleman from Texas again, I am sorry to say, is very correct. We should not look at people's words, we should look…”

“The gentleman from Texas again, I am sorry to say, is very correct. We should not look at people's words, we should look at the bill. Here all they want to do is throw words. We have not even seen the real bill, I guess, on Medicare. We got a printed one, I hear, on Friday. Then on Monday there was a new chairman's mark that was something entirely different, and I guess they spent yesterday discussing it, but again it was all verbal. It is all fuzz. It is a bag of smoke. It is a real bag of smoke, but in that bag of smoke I think there are some chunks of gold for a few people who invested early, invested early in the new group in power. What it really means is they are toasting the average American's Medicare card, that the Medicare things that you thought you owned and you thought were represented by your Medicare card are being really brokered away in all of this and diminished. For all of this Mediscare that I think they are the ones projecting, I think it is interesting that they do not ask the trustees did they do the right thing. They have not taken their bill to the trustees. They are not having hearings.…”