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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) made the following statement after the House passed Republican Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget:

“As the Democratic alternative budgets showed, we can get our fiscal house in order without rationing health care for our seniors and low-income Americans. 

“The other side likes to talk about how Medicare is driving the deficit, but that’s just part of the story.  The full story is that private health care costs – and we all know this to be true because we’re all paying more – are rising at a rapid clip, and Medicare can’t keep pace. 

“The debate we had on this budget could have been the same debate our nation had about the New Deal and Social Security.  It could have been the same debate when Medicare and Medicaid became law.  And this budget is turning back the clock and taking us to the ‘good old days’ when people are just on their own.”