Joe Baca: “I stand in support of a comprehensive prescription drug plan. We need to do something for our seniors. Seniors are the…”

“I stand in support of a comprehensive prescription drug plan. We need to do something for our seniors. Seniors are the ones that made our country great, and too often we forget their contribution and what they have done. We have a responsibility. Today many of them are faced with a crisis, and I say with a crisis, because now they have to pay an abundance of dollars on a fixed income. It becomes so difficult for our seniors to put food on the table when they have to decide what to do: 'Do I pay for medication that will relieve the pain and agony that I have?' Some of these seniors have 15 to 30 prescription drugs that they have to pay for. It is too high. It has gotten ridiculous. This is not about profit, this is about taking care of the American people. This is about taking care of our seniors. We need to make sure that we come up with a comprehensive medical plan that covers them. We owe it to our seniors and we owe it to Americans, we owe it to this country. I say, let us get behind a good, comprehensive plan that covers our seniors. They have suffered enough. Let us help them.”