On the recordOctober 13, 1995
I was a practicing physician before I came to the U.S. Congress, and, actually, the truth is a lot of those working families on limited incomes, families where maybe the husband has a $15,000, $20,000 a year job, and the wife may have a part-time job while the kids are in school making $6,000 or $7,000 a year, many of those families have no health insurance, they have zero health insurance. I have seen that in my practice, where they do not have the money to pay me, and you have to set up a schedule of payments or you have to just write that off, because you know they cannot afford it. So you end up seeing them for free. We have been taxing those people to subsidize the part B premium for many very, very wealthy senior citizens. This is just another example, I believe, of how our plan is a well thought out plan, a balanced plan.
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