Mr. Speaker, having sat on the Medicare Commission for a year and looked at the future of Medicare, and having realized that beginning in 2010, we are going to double the number of people on Medicare as the baby boomers move into that stage of their life, we cannot realistically argue against putting money in advance of that big deficit that is coming. Even more important, it is taken out of people's paychecks under the HI, the health insurance. If that money is not used for Medicare, it is breaking the trust with the workers who put it in.
David Price: “Mr. Speaker, having sat on the Medicare Commission for a year and looked at the future of Medicare, and having realized…”
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Discussing the future of Medicare and the impact of baby boomers on the program.
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