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Robert Berry: I can tell you one thing for certain, my distinguished colleagues across the aisle, while well meaning, absolutely don't…

On the recordJanuary 12, 2007
I can tell you one thing for certain, my distinguished colleagues across the aisle, while well meaning, absolutely don't know turnip greens from butter beans about what they are talking about. They have claimed to be concerned about our seniors. They have claimed to be concerned about our neighborhood pharmacies. Their bill, passed in 2003, assaulted our seniors and our neighborhood pharmacies. I assure you, that bill has done more to threaten those small businesses and the health care and well being of our senior citizens more than anything that is ever been done by this United States Congress, and they should be ashamed of themselves. If they were concerned, they would not have passed that bill. They would not have made it possible for the PBMs to rob our neighborhood pharmacies and our senior citizens. I can tell you this, our pharmacists provided millions of dollars in medicine out of the goodness of their hearts and a moral obligation to see that the senior citizens of this country were taken care of when this plan was implemented.
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Robert Berry
Arkansas

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Addressing concerns about a 2003 bill affecting seniors and neighborhood pharmacies.

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