Political Quotes

“This debate taking place in the Senate is about people's lives. We have senior citizens who desperately need a prescription drug benefit. This is what they want. They want one that is affordable and reliable. It is no more complicated than that. The Graham-Miller bill meets that criteria. Unfortunately, the bill from the other side does not for at least two major reasons. It turns the prescription drug benefit over to private insurance companies. The insurance companies themselves have said this will not work. It will not work because they are in the business of making a profit. They will only go to the markets where it is profitable. That means there will be millions of senior citizens around this country with no access to a prescription drug benefit. Second, it has an enormous gap in coverage. For those who have $400 a month in prescription drug costs, there will be 3 or 4 months toward the end of the year where they will get no coverage at all, no help for their prescription drugs, although every month they are writing a premium check. That makes no sense. Those problems are taking care of in the Graham-Miller bill.”