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In other words, if the per patient cost today is $250
a day, that's not the room, that's the whole deal.
In five years from now, it'll be $500 a day. Any argument
about that? O.K.
This means that your insurance rates are going up,
your insurance payments. Most of you are paying about $100
a month Blue Cross -Blue Shield. But you're going to pay
$200. I don't think we can stand it. We've dumped off
enough on these young folks. Right now, social security
taxes, they're talking about, Senator Dole is talking
about increasing the social security taxes of you young
people. And it's not right. I take a dim view of my
generation and what we've done.
Now we did one thing well --you and the rest, me and
the rest of you over sixty. We were forced into World
War II; we fought and we won it and then we sat back
and we let the government take over and we are running
deficit, deficit, deficit. And somewhere it's got to
stop. And this is the place to stop it. We can't continue
to spend more than we take in.
Now I want you to stop and think with me just a minute
the position we are putting yourselves in if you go to vote
November 2nd and you vote to pass this bond, Now here's
the position you are going to put yourself in. You go to
_, the hospital and you take your wife to the hospital, and