Political Quotes

“I mean I have heard over and over and over again from the most conservative people in this House, who on the Republican side have always opposed any program like Medicare, calling it socialism, saying it is a terrible program, it is big government, all of that. They have all said we are not cutting Medicare, we are slowing the rate of growth, and that is what they say over and over and over again and try to drum that into the heads of America's elderly, saying we are not threatening Medicare. The fact is slowing the rate of growth when more people are on Medicare means less money for each older beneficiary. It also means there is a higher cost for medicine which goes up and for health care. It means less per person, and third what it means, as the gentlewoman from Connecticut was alluding to, is as special interests cash in more and more on the Gingrich Medicare plan, it means less monies available. So you already have a shrinking pot of money for America's ever increasing number of elderly, and that pot shrinks even further when more people are, to mix a metaphor, when more people are at the trough, more special interest groups that have fought to have all of these antifraud provisions taken out. So we are going to see more fraud.…”