Political Quotes

“the Senate will soon have an historic opportunity to pass landmark legislation to make affordable prescription drug coverage available to all of our Nation's seniors, as well as to people with disabilities who receive Medicare benefits. This legislation, which represents the largest expansion of Medicare in the program's 38-year history, is long overdue, and it deserves our support. Prescription drugs are as important to the health of our seniors today as a hospital bed was back in 1965 when the Medicare Program was first created. I have long been a supporter of providing a prescription drug benefit as part of an effort to strengthen the Medicare Program, and I believe that were prescription drugs as important back in the 1960s as they are today the creators of the Medicare Program undoubtedly would have provided for that coverage. But back then the focus was on covering hospitalization. While I continue to have reservations about some of the conference agreement's provisions, we simply cannot allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good. This historic opportunity may never come again, and we cannot afford to let it pass. We cannot allow yet another year to go by without taking action to help our seniors with the soaring cost of prescription drugs. Millions of older Americans and their families will be helped by this legislation. Millions more will be helped in the future.”