Gus Bilirakis: “I would like to say that we have heard all sorts of arguments against what we have done. The doughnut hole, which is a…”

“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.”