On the recordFebruary 15, 2000
it is ridiculous. Let me just give my colleagues some ideas of what happens when they get into the situation. This is a letter, and I have not been able to ask them for permission to use this, so I am just going to kind of read an outset. ``My father has threatened to give up his medications just so my mother can continue taking hers. This would mean he would die in a very short time.'' That is another kind of compelling thing. I have another one from a woman who has taken her mother, who had a stroke, in her house. So not only is she having to care for her and having to have somebody come in and care for her, she is also having to pick up her prescription drug because she has no benefit; and she says it is absolutely crippling them.
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