I am further dismayed by the incorporation of the risky medical savings account proposal in the Medicare portion of the package. This proposal will undermine the integrity of the Medicare Program by transferring critical funding away from the most needy beneficiaries to the healthiest. wealthiest senior citizens. Third. I am pleased that the bill restores SSI and Medicaid to those legal immigrants who were receiving them when the welfare reform legislation was enacted last August. Unfortunately. the budget agreement does not go far enough. Those immigrants who were here last August who only subsequently qualified for assistance. remain barred from receiving benefits. This is terribly unfair to those who had a reasonable expectation that the U.S. Government would assist them.
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