On the recordOctober 25, 2000
I would just ask a question, because we talk about in these numbers of poverty or somebody under $14,000, that is not after expenditures. That is what they get at the beginning of the year, or what their allocation would be, would be $14,500. So if you were somebody who was 70 years old and if we look at the average of what a senior takes in medicine, life-sustaining medicines, then they could pay anywhere between $4,000 to $5,000 a year, not on anything else, but just on medicines, dropping now their income to $9,000, $9,000 which they have to live on, after the medicine which allows them to live.
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