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Pete Domenici: Home health care. Right. Now, if you wanted to fix that trust fund without doing anything real, then you would say…

On the recordMay 16, 1996
Home health care. Right. Now, if you wanted to fix that trust fund without doing anything real, then you would say, ``Let us not pay for the fastest growing part of Medicare. Take it out.'' So the President's budget says, ``We are not going to pay for that out of the trust fund and, seniors, you ought to be thrilled; I am making your trust fund more solvent.'' My mind has not yet permitted me to reduce this to some simple statement, but it is smoke and mirrors at least. It is gimmickry at its worst.
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing the implications of the President's budget on Medicare and home health care funding.

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