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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, October 9, 1995 Volume 31ÐNumber 40 Pages 1749±1788 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 13:40 Mar 09, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P40OC4.000 p40oc4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Interviews With the News Media Arts and humanities awardsÐ1765, 1774 Exchange with reporters in the Briefing Bosnia-Herzegovina cease-fire agreementÐ RoomÐ1765 1765 Freedom House breakfastÐ1775 Letters and Messages National Advisory Committee on Human Yom Kippur, messageÐ1756 Radiation Experiments, final reportÐ1756 National Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamations MonthÐ1750 Child Health DayÐ1753 New Jersey, welcoming ceremony for Pope Energy Awareness MonthÐ1764 John Paul II in NewarkÐ1762 Radio addressÐ1749 German-American DayÐ1785 National Breast Cancer Awareness MonthÐ Bill Signings 1772 Military Construction Appropriations Act of National Children's DayÐ1785 1996, statementÐ1761 National Disability Employment Awareness MonthÐ1784 Bill Vetoes National Domestic Violence Awareness Legislative branch appropriations bill, FY MonthÐ1754 1996, letter to the House of RepresentativesÐ1762 Statements by the President Communications to Congress See also Bill Signings Computer export controls reformÐ1783 See Bill Vetoes Hurricane OpalÐ1764 Communications to Federal Agencies Mexico, financial recoveryÐ1772 Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign, Political reform, House inactionÐ1755 memorandumÐ1755 Supplementary Materials Executive Orders Acts approved by the PresidentÐ1788 Compensation Practices of Government Checklist of White House press releasesÐ CorporationsÐ1773 1787 Protection of Human Research Subjects and Digest of other White House Creation of National Bioethics Advisory announcementsÐ1786 CommissionÐ1759 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ1787 WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). 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The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is pub- There are no restrictions on the republication of material lished pursuant to the authority contained in the Federal Reg- appearing in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ister Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 13:40 Mar 09, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P40OC4.000 p40oc4 Week Ending Friday, October 6, 1995 The President's Radio Address home residents gets some help from Medic- September 30, 1995 aid. And no wonder, for nursing homes cost an average of $38,000 a year, and not many Good morning. I want to talk to you about of our families can afford that. the budget debate now unfolding in Wash- Now this Republican budget would break ington and about how the wrong decisions this promise to our families. It ends the na- can threaten the independence and the dig- tional commitment that any senior citizen, nity of elderly Americans. regardless of how much money they have or I strongly believe we must balance the don't have, will have access to quality doctors budget to lift the burden of debt off our chil- and good facilities. dren and to strengthen our economy. But we This budget actually provides for $180 bil- must balance the budget in a way that is con- lion in cuts. Now, we do need to slow the sistent with our values and our vision for rate of medical inflation in the Medicaid pro- America's future, giving our people the gram. But these cuts are way, way too much. chance to make the most of their own lives, They are far, far more than the health care strengthening our families, protecting our system can handle. Over the next few years, children, honoring our parents, growing the this plan and its cuts would deny nursing middle class and shrinking the under class, home care to 300,000 seniors who are eligible preserving America as the world's strongest for it today. And it will also cut off home nation. Those are the values that must anchor care services to 300,000 more. That's bad our budget decisions. enough. But listen to what's buried in the For our parents and grandparents who sac- fine print; it's even worse. rificed so much, no value is more important Under the plan put forward by the House than independence. All Americans deserve of Representatives, because they know to live out their lives in dignity, and nobody there's not enough money in it to maintain wants to be a burden to their children. So the health care system, any State government we should do everything in our power to can force people whose husbands or wives offer elderly Americans the chance to live have to go into nursing homes to give up with respect and with independence, and the their car, their furniture, even their home Government shouldn't make it worse. before their spouse can qualify for any medi- But the Republicans in Congress have pro- cal support. Everything they've worked for posed a budget that will undermine the dig- their whole lives, gone. nity and independence of our senior citizens. Think about it. Who wants a Medicaid po- Here's how: Medicaid's the way our country lice with vast power to seize your assets and helps families pay for nursing homes, home put you out of your home and make sure care, or other long-term care for elderly or you have nothing left to pass on to your chil- disabled persons. Some people would have dren? I don't think it should be a pre- you think that Medicaid just helps poor chil- condition that if a husband has to go into dren. Well, it does do that, and that is very a nursing home, his wife has to go into the important. Almost one in four American chil- poorhouse. dren are poor enough to need help from Once, this kind of abuse was the norm. Medicaid. In the mid-1980's, one elderly couple in But the truth is, two-thirds of MedicareÐ Texas was forced to live in nursing homes MedicaidÐgoes to help to pay for nursing 700 miles apart. Another woman in New homes and other care for senior citizens and York had to actually sue her husband for sup- the disabled. Nearly 7 of every 10 nursing port while he lay helpless in a nursing home. 1749 VerDate 28-OCT-97 13:58 Mar 09, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P40OC4.003 p40oc4 1750 Sept. 30 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1995 The Government had tried to force her onto nates the deficit without destroying edu- food stamps, but she refused. The Govern- cation or undermining our environment or ment was literally out of control. Then, a bi- violating our commitments to working fami- partisan law signed by President Reagan pro- lies, poor children, or seniors. It gives the tected spouses. American people a tax cut targeted to edu- The Republican budget plan will also dev- cation and childrearing, and it secures Medi- astate the quality of medical care for seniors care and its Trust Fund, and it restrains infla- who need it. Little more than a decade ago, tion on Medicaid without imposing new costs if you went to a nursing home, what could on seniors, threatening their independence you see? Some patients tied to their beds, or destroying their dignity. others in a drug-induced stupor, under- Let's be clear, of courseÐof course, we trained nurses and fumbling technicians. All need to balance the budget. But we need told, back then 40 percent of nursing home to do it in a way that strengthens our families, residents were either overrestrained or over- enhances opportunity for Americans, and medicated. honors our obligations to our parents. Reforms signed by President Reagan I am determined to see that people of good changed all that. But now, the Republican faith work together to find common ground plan would eliminate all national standards in meeting this challenge. for nursing home care. It would turn back Thanks for listening. the clock to the days when children worried about whether their parents in nursing NOTE: The address was recorded at 6 p.m. on homes had to actually be afraid of danger September 29 in Room 453 of the Old Executive Office Building for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on and degradation. September 30. Congress should strip these outrageous provisions from the budget bill. They're in- consistent with our core values. They're not Remarks in Observance of National what America is all about, and they are cer- Domestic Violence Awareness Month tainly not necessary to balance the budget. October 2, 1995 Congress is trying to cut Medicaid too much, and Congress is also trying to cut Medicare Thank you very much, Sergeant Wynn, for too much. It is not necessary to balance the your remarks and for dedicating your life to budget or to save the Medicare Trust Fund. this important work. Thank you, Bonnie Now, the truth is that we do needÐwe Campbell, for doing a great job as head of do need to slow the rate of inflation in Medi- the Violence Against Women Program in the care and to extend the life of the Medicaid Justice Department.