(Archived document, may contain errors) November 17,1995 SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON MEDICARE PART IS By John C. Liu Policy Analyst Under the Medicare proposals people could be making $50,000, $100,000 or $200,000 a year and still receive medical assistance provided by the Federal Government from a tax on a poor man who has not enough money to put butter on his bread .... We should help people who cannot pay their own medical bills.... U.S. Senator Russell B. Long (D-LA) August 31, 1964