Political Quotes

“Absolutely. I add also, one of my deep concerns is that in order to pay for this, they are talking about Medicare "reforms." Unfortunately, the reforms we are hearing about are proposals such as adding the cost of home health care, requiring a copay for home health care. Our seniors who are now struggling to live at home, families who are struggling to make sure someone can live in dignity in their home as long as possible, have home health care. Part of that is their prescription drugs, and to pay less than 20 percent of the cost of prescription drugs, one of the things they are talking about is a copay for home health care. So they will be adding other costs to this process as well. I suggest: Beware of what is coming. It is very clear when the only people who are advocating for the proposal put forward by the House Republicans are the drug companies, that should tell us something. When they have fought every proposal for comprehensive prescription drug coverage, every proposal to lower the cost of prescription drugs, whether it is expanding generic drugs, opening the borders, lowering advertising costs--every single effort to get some control and accountability in this system so that our seniors can afford prescription drugs they have opposed.”