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.
Discussing Medicare spending during a debate.
Share
More from Christopher Shays
This industry may be highly regulated by State, Federal and international governments, but because all are involved, no one takes ownership. I had an experience with a constituent, George Smith, who was lost at sea on his honeymoon on…
Rather than focusing on destroying elements of the Syrian government forces and choosing sides in a truly brutal civil war, our focus should be on how do we get these chemical weapons out of Syria.
What should be our primary concern, that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian Army, or that Syria has chemical weapons that could fall into the hands of radical elements sympathetic to al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations?
I believed there were weapons of mass destruction, wrong, shouldn't have done it.
Other voices in this conversation
