For subscription information see below. All rights reserved - may be used with PWW credits. More than 35 million senior citizens and survivors are covered by Medicare and an equal number of persons, including 17 million children, are covered by Medicaid. Dozens of disabled people, many in wheel chairs, sat near the podium as speakers warned that the proposed cuts threatened all who depend on Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income benefits for their survival. Patrick Burns, spokesperson for the NCSC, told this reporter the most important thing people can do to stop the cuts is call Congress.
People have to understand that while women live longer than men, they also live poorer.
Jones, pointing to the fact that most families on public assistance are white, said the right wing has deliberately confused the issue in order to divide people. We want to knock those darn Republicans out of there. I don't agree with everything President Clinton does, but I would sure approve that. Protuilus said the GOP leadership in Congress was engaging in tricks, hoax, false gifts, disinformation and deception in order to take from the poor and give to the rich. Protuilus said the Whitewater hearings took 28 days while only one day of hearings was scheduled for Medicare- Medicaid.