Political Quotes

“I wish to thank the Senator from Tennessee for his graciousness to make a very few brief remarks. I wish to call to the attention of the Senate that there are some good things that are happening in Medicare. In the health care bill-- which was a very complicated piece of legislation--there are a lot of good things. There were some things that are implemented over time, that if mistakes had been made, we can correct those mistakes as they are starting to be implemented. I wish to point out some of the salutary things that are happening under the new health care reform bill with regard to Medicaid. It was just this week that the agency that runs Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, announced that more seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare are seeing significantly lower costs for important health care because of this new law. For example, what we are seeing for the first time is that millions of Americans on Medicare are now getting free physical exams as part of their preventive medicine. Because of the doughnut hole, which is that complicated black hole senior citizens would fall into when they were getting assistance for their prescription drugs, well, lo and behold, that doughnut hole is being filled by the Federal Government assisting them in paying for those drugs. Therefore, they are getting a lot more of their drugs without having to pay for them.…”