On the recordJune 22, 2004
I would like to say that we have heard all sorts of arguments against what we have done. The doughnut hole, which is a gap in terms of dollars and what benefits can be acquired during that time and before and after that, the Democrats, as I have already said, have in their 1999 bill a $200 deductible and they had a cost sharing up to $1,700 and then catastrophic coverage after $3,000 out of pocket. So they had a doughnut hole from $1,700 to $3,000. We also have a doughnut hole because of the limited dollars that were available. Our doughnut hole goes from $2,250 to $3,600. So they had a $1,700, as I understand it, as I interpret it, up to $3,000; and we have a doughnut hole from $2,250 up to $3,600. So we learned about the doughnut hole from them.
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