Political Quotes

“This, my friends and fellow colleagues, is a proposed law. It is huge. But that is not uncommon. And that should not be a reason to vote against it. The reason to vote against it is what is contained in this law, this proposal, this bill. When we started this debate about prescription drugs for seniors, overwhelmingly the President, the Republicans, Democrats, all agreed on one thing: We needed to find a way to provide affordable prescription drugs for senior citizens. Medicare, as good as it is, provides good care through hospitals and doctors but not enough help when it comes to paying for prescription drugs. We understood that needed to be done. The solution was obvious from the start. The solution to this challenge was to put under the Medicare Program a voluntary, comprehensive, and universal plan to pay for prescription drugs, to use the same successful model that has guided us for 40 years in keeping seniors healthy through good doctors and good hospitals, and also provide prescription drugs.”