Christopher Shays: “The difference is that when he refers to it, he calls it a savings. When he refers to ours, he calls it a cut. But…”

“The difference is that when he refers to it, he calls it a savings. When he refers to ours, he calls it a cut. But before we leave Medicare, I do not want to leave it without just summarizing the fact that we allow Medicare to grow from $178 billion to $289 billion, a 60-percent increase in Government spending on Medicare. On a per-person basis, we allowed it last year to grow from $4,800 to $7,100, a 50-percent increase per beneficiary.”