Political Quotes

“I know this adds another dimension in our rural parts of the country in Michigan, up north in the UP, where it is more difficult to get to a hospital or other facilities as well. We need to really be strengthening our home health care and medications so people can be living at home and living with family, and having the opportunity to be independent. They have longer distances as well to drive, and it complicates health care provision, I know. Medicare was started in 1965 because half of our seniors could not find insurance or could not afford it. It has now become a great American success story of having a promise that every senior has some basic health care available to them once they reach age 65 or if they are disabled. What we have today, though, is a false promise, because we cannot provide the kind of health care or access to the kind of health care that is practiced today. That is predominantly through our prescription drug strategies for providing health care.”