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On the recordMarch 22, 2012
Mr. President, I thought I had 2 more minutes. I appreciate the comments. This is the 2-year anniversary of passing what is the so-called affordable patient care act. The Supreme Court has chosen next week to begin the deliberations on it, and they are going to take three times as long as they do on any case so that they can divide this into pieces, and that mandate piece will be the second one. One that they probably won't be going into is this Medicare problem. We are going to have seniors who are going to be without care because we have taken $500 billion out of Medicare when it needed a doc fix and it needed a whole bunch of other things, and particularly in rural areas where there are critical access hospitals, rural health clinics. Can any reasonable person believe that you can cut $\1/2\ trillion from a program and not affect its impact on patient care? I wish to have more time to show that there is a theft of this $500 billion, there is fraud involved, that there are bureaucrats and accounting sleight of hand. ____________________
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Mike Enzi
Republican · Wyoming

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