Political Quotes

“Well, Mr. Speaker, before I try to catch that last flight, when I was running for office and I was in Six Corners Jewel, which is our big grocery store with the Osco, on Irving and Organza, seniors would come out and show me what they were paying and they told me the stories about how they cut their medications in half, or a husband would skip a month so his spouse could take her medications. And the first thing they said is, you have to make this affordable. I have to be able to pay for this. They would talk about that, and ask me to make sure that whatever we did, we did not mess with their private plans. But then they would say, please, add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. In my view, if we are on the doorstep of adding that benefit, let us ensure, because it is the first thing they have all said to every one of us who has gone to meet with them, we have to make these drugs affordable. They cannot afford these prices. They would tell me, look, somehow last month my month's supply was $70 and this month it is $96, and nothing has changed. Nothing. If we brought competition, something would change.”