Lynn C. Woolsey: “we all know that today prescription drugs are a fact of life and a fact of death. The average American senior uses 18…”

“we all know that today prescription drugs are a fact of life and a fact of death. The average American senior uses 18 prescription drugs each year, and the cost of those lifesaving drugs keeps going up. That is why it is our responsibility as Members of Congress to enact a comprehensive prescription drug benefit plan, but it must be a plan that benefits all seniors and that it is not the kind of plan that our GOP leadership has proposed. Under their plan, only some seniors in limited scenarios will actually benefit. Seniors should be spending time with their grandchildren, not trying to figure out how to pay for the medicines they need to live. Let us not make Americans' golden years, when they are seniors, into their darkest years, forcing them to choose between paying for food and paying for their medication. Seniors deserve better than that. My Republican colleagues need to stop stalling. They need to come up with a meaningful proposal. They need to start helping seniors by providing a real prescription drug benefit.”