On the recordMay 12, 2004
every American should be confident that whether they lose their job, change jobs, get sick or just grow old, they should be able to find affordable, reliable health care. We know how to do this. I agree with the gentleman on the other side of the aisle. We have the ultimate association health plan available. We could make every American eligible for the Federal Employees Benefit Plan at their own expense. That would be the ultimate in the association health care plan. We can also make people over 55 eligible for Medicare. We can make low-income working families eligible for Medicaid. We know how to provide health care coverage for the American people. If we are going to do this, we also know that we have to provide a fair, reasonably priced pharmaceutical product to these same people. We cannot continue to allow the drug manufacturers to rob the American people.
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