Steve Lynch: “I must admit to great disappointment in reviewing the Republican plan for prescription drugs. I think that we need to…”

“I must admit to great disappointment in reviewing the Republican plan for prescription drugs. I think that we need to start from the very beginning. In 1965, when Medicare was created, I think that back then there was a good-faith, bipartisan effort to develop a plan that would indeed address the health concerns of a lot of our seniors. However, in 1965, the model for health care for seniors at that time, the paradigm, if you will, was for seniors to receive health care. It meant hospitalization in a great many respects. Nowadays, though, fast forwarding to go to what we have today, for many seniors, in order to achieve the goals of Medicare, we need to provide solid, reliable, affordable prescription drug coverage.”