Political Quotes

“it is estimated that this year alone approximately 44,000 women will lose their lives to breast cancer and an additional 15,000 will die from cervical cancer. As these treacherous diseases continue to spread in women, researchers work diligently in hopes of finding a cure for cancerous cells and in hopes of providing solutions to improve and extend the lives of cancer patients. Yet with all this new technology and new medications, scores of low-income women, mothers, daughters and wives, will never know the benefits of this new research because they simply cannot afford treatment for their potentially fatal cancer. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Lazio) will soon introduce a bill that will provide States with an optional Medicaid benefit to provide coverage for treatment to low-income women who are screened and diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through our Federal CDC Early Detection Program. With little cost to taxpayers, passing this fiscally conservative legislation will literally mean saving the lives of thousands of women. I urge each and every one of our colleagues to sponsor this bill.”