On the recordMarch 19, 2013
I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. I want to shed a little light on what has been discussed on the floor tonight, Mr. Chairman. We are hearing a lot of conversation about Medicare. We have to be clear that, in ObamaCare, this was the largest health care reform bill this country had ever seen. It's going to spend $2 trillion of deficit spending over the next 10 years. With that massive new health care reform bill, guess what? Medicare is going broke in 10 to 12 years. So with this great health care reform, they didn't have enough foresight to save our seniors' Medicare program, the program they've actually paid for over the course of their lifetimes. I think our seniors deserve better than what they've received in ObamaCare. We hear a lot about what we've done with the $716 billion in ObamaCare. Let's be clear between the two plans. My friends across the aisle want to take $716 billion of savings from Medicare--take that money out--and use it for a different set of people in ObamaCare. They want to use it for people who didn't pay for the program. On our side of the aisle, we want to take that savings and use it for our seniors--it's their money; they deserve to get it--and we use it to shore up the program. This makes sense. You talk about facts and numbers, think back to what the President told us with regard to ObamaCare. He said, Listen, you're going to see your health care costs go down by $2,500 a year per family of four. The truth? What happened?…
