Patricia Schroeder: “the words are flying again on Medicare and Medicaid. Here we go. It must be an election year. What do you think? Look…”

“the words are flying again on Medicare and Medicaid. Here we go. It must be an election year. What do you think? Look, the American people are pretty smart about this issue. When the leadership on the other side, one of them said he was proud he never voted for it, another one said he hoped it would wither on the vine, another leader on that side said that they were trying to make cuts like no one had ever seen before, but now all of a sudden, as we get near to the election year, everybody is trying to rewrite history and suddenly say, no, we have come to save it, come to save it, somehow that does not pass the straight face test. Last year we had an attempt to try and put Medicare on the right path so that the report that we are going to be getting would not be coming, had we done that. Yet the other side rejected it because they did not want to do that. They wanted to cut Medicare and put it into tax cuts for the people who need tax cuts the least, the ones who have the most get more. I do not understand that. I do not understand that at all. So we are at a point of do we mend it or do we mash it. The mashers are trying to say they want to mend. We want so say, it is time to deal with it straightforwardly.”