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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 27, 2009
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Senior Citizens Entitlements and the Safety Net Taxes Health and Health Care Government Budget and Spending

Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, at nearly $1 trillion in spending and tax increases, the Democrat health care bill is a bad deal for taxpayers; but it is a worst deal for American seniors, and senior citizens deserve to know about it.

Included in the Democrat health care plan are massive cuts in Medicare Advantage, $162 billion in reductions in this popular program. As a result, Medicare Advantage plans will drop out of the program, limiting seniors' choices and causing many to lose their current health care coverage through Medicare Advantage. This will have an exceptionally negative impact in rural areas, like my district of eastern Indiana.

According to the Congressional Budget Office as well, the Democrat's health care plan will increase the cost of Medicare prescription drug premiums by 20 percent in the next decade.

The President said, If you like your current plan, you can keep it. Well, after looking at the Democrats' plan for seniors, I guess he wasn't talking about senior citizens when he said that.


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