Mark Neumann: “Just a couple of things on this. I think all of this discussion about what is happening in Medicare, I just reemphasize…”

“Just a couple of things on this. I think all of this discussion about what is happening in Medicare, I just reemphasize that if our seniors do nothing, they keep Medicare as they know it today. A lot of times people forget that our friends and our own parents are on Medicare, and they forget how concerned we are about the senior citizens we know. When I jog with George, a good friend of mine, he talks to me about his mother. When I ride to basketball games with Tom, where our kids play on the same team, we talk about his parents and we talk about the meaning of Medicare to these senior citizens. Somehow in this whole discussion we lose the fact that we care a lot. We have a responsibility. It is like this with Medicare today. They are writing out checks for more money than they have in their checkbook. We all know they cannot keep doing that. We have a responsibility to George's parents and to Tom's parents and to George and Tom and our responsibility to these people, to the people we represent, is to make sure we do not allow this system to go bankrupt so their parents can continue to receive these benefits. We would be totally out of line to allow the Medicare system just to continue down the road it is going down right now. I care too much about Tom's parents and George's parents and the other parents like them across our district.”