Political Quotes

“I want to focus primarily on one part of the Medicare prescription drug plan and the representation of the most generous package ever to rural health care providers. The Medicare law equalizes payments so that rural and suburban hospitals receive billions in much-needed relief over the next decade. They will receive continued standardized amounts of assistance without pause, increased help for DSH rural and small urban hospitals, adjusted payments to low volume hospitals to provide more equitable reimbursements for health care costs, and greater flexibility for rural and small urban hospitals to have more graduate medical residents providing better care. We should not have a discrepancy between the care in urban and suburban areas and rural health care. The Medicare Modernization Act is the best health care package that rural America has ever seen. I am glad it was passed, and I look forward to the implementation of the law.”