Karen Thurman: “one other issue that the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Brown) brought up that I also think is very important in this…”

“one other issue that the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Brown) brought up that I also think is very important in this debate and quite frankly it is an issue that our Republican colleagues are having, I can say from CongressDaily today, one is the cost issue. They are concerned about it. The gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) came on the floor and showed the comparison of what we do in this country as compared to the same cost of that drug in another country, an industrialized country which is important to appreciate and understand and the price issue but it is the pharmacist issue. Let me tell a little story that I think makes a really good point. A couple of years ago, my mother, who lived with me, and I took care of her when she was sick and she was in Florida with me during one of my breaks, she had been at one of our teaching hospitals, Shands. I had brought her home after she had been in the hospital for a couple of days, and they had said to me, You know, Karen, we think these are some of the things we think are wrong, and what we want to do is go ahead and put her on some medications, but we would like you to bring her back in about 10 days to see how she is doing.''”