Bob Wise: “while I am going to speak on corridor H and its importance to West Virginia, I just want to touch for a second on…”

“while I am going to speak on corridor H and its importance to West Virginia, I just want to touch for a second on Medicare because today the Speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate unveiled what the Medicare plan was, and what we see is a stealth health bill. They did not give us the details. We do not know much more than what we have known before. We know that they want to cut $270 billion over the next 7 years. That has been out there for a long time. We know there are a variety of ways they want to do it, except they do not spell the details out. We do know this. While the Speaker says that it will cost only $7 a month more in premiums to seniors, it is actually going to be, according to the White House, according to other credible officials, $20 or $30 a month more. We also know this, Mr. Speaker. We know that $270 billion is 22 times what it necessary by the estimate of the trustees of the Medicare plan to make it solvent. Mr. Speaker, stealth health is not a good idea, particularly when rewriting 30 years of Medicare in a 2-week period. Americans must demand to see the plan.”