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�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Santa Monica, California)
For Immediate Release
June 24, 2000
RADIO ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
Los Angeles, California
THE PRESIDENT:
Good morning.
This week we mark the beginning of
summer, another summer of national prosperity, continuing the longest
economic expansion in our history.
The big question now is what we
intend to do with this economic prosperity.
One of our most pressing
needs, clearly, is providing voluntary prescription drug coverage under
Medicare for older Americans.
We should do it this year.
The American people have made their feelings clear.
They know our
seniors are paying too much for prescription drugs that help them live
longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Three in five older Americans
don't have dependable insurance coverage for prescriptions, and too many
seniors simply aren't getting the drugs they need.
Again and again I've said it should be a high priority to add a
prescription drug benefit to Medicare this year.
But we must do it the
right way, by making the benefit affordable and available for everyone
who needs it.
I'm deeply concerned that the proposal House Republicans put
forward this week will take us down the wrong road. What they have
proposed is not a Medicare benefit; it's a private insurance program
which many seniors and people with disabilities simply won't be able to
afford.
It will not offer dependable coverage to every American in
every part of the country.
Rural Americans will be at particular risk
because private insurance is often unavailable to them or very, very
expensive.
The plan doesn't ensure that seniors will be able to use the local
pharmacist they trust.
Insurance companies have already said this model
won't work; it benefits the companies who make the drugs, not the older
Americans who need to take the drugs.
There is a better way.
I propose giving all our seniors the option
of a prescription drug benefit through Medicare, wherever they live,
however sick they may be. My plan would be affordable and dependable,
and give every senior equal coverage.
Because our economy is so strong, and because we worked hard to put
the Medicare trust fund back on sound footing, we have the money to do
this now and do it right.
We should use a part of our hard-earned
budget surplus to meet America's most pressing priorities, like paying
down the national debt, strengthening Medicare, and providing a
prescription drug benefit.
That's why next week I will propose using the surplus to improve my
plan.
I will unveil specific protections for catastrophic drug
expenses, to ensure that no senior pays more than $4,000 in prescription
0rugs and keeping premiums at $25 a month. And I'll propose making
that benefit in the full prescription drug initiative available in
2002, instead of 2003. To do that, I'll ask Congress to add about $58
billion to our funding for Medicare over the next 10 years.
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�Providing a voluntary prescription drug benefit is only one of the
challenges we must face to keep Medicare healthy for generations to
come. We also have to increase payments to hospitals, teaching
facilities, home health care agencies, and other providers, to make
sure Medicare patients get high-quality care.
Earlier this week I
proposed that we use $40 billion of the surplus to do that.
We should also follow Vice President Gore's proposal to take
Medicare off-budget, like Social Security, so that the Medicare taxes
you pay cannot be diverted for irresponsible tax cuts or other
government spending that could lead us back to the bad old days of
deficits and give us higher interest rates.
This will protect Medicare
and make a major contribution toward paying down the debt. And I
propose using the savings from debt reduction to extend the life of
the Medicare trust fund through at least 2030, when the number of
Medicare people will be double what it is today.
We're fortunate
very fortunate
to live in a time of budget
surpluses and remarkable prosperity, but we didn't get there by
accident. We maintained our fiscal discipline, invested in our people,
made good on the commitments that matter most. We can't let up now.
And we have few responsibilities more important than helping our older
Americans live out their lives with quality and in dignity.
We have the opportunity to meet that responsibility with a
straightforward plan that all seniors can buy into. We have growing
bipartisan agreement in the Senate that this is the way to go.
I hope as we mark the 50th anniversary of the Korean War tomorrow
we'll remember that a generation of Americans who did not let us, their
children and grandchildren, down. And in'return, we owe it not to let
them down.
Thank you for listening.
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Heather Hurlburt's speechwriting collection consists of speeches, drafts, correspondence, and background research. Hurlburt worked as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Clinton. Her speechwriting files date from 1999-2001. As a speechwriter, Hurlburt prepared remarks on primarily domestic issues ranging from health care to the Special Olympics to the Mississippi Delta Region to the Kennedy Center Awards. She wrote remarks for policy speeches, radio addresses, commencements, taped video remarks, and award ceremonies or tributes. She also prepared a few speeches for the First Lady, and one undelivered speech for Sandy Berger on the topic of military reform.
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