Political Quotes

“I rise this evening as I have on too many occasions to speak out about the issue of Medicare coverage for prescription drugs. I say too many because the time is up for this Congress to act and to modernize Medicare to cover the way health care is provided today. We have the most wonderful health care system in the world. I know a gentleman who takes a pill once a month instead of having open heart surgery. The pill costs $400. Medicare will cover the surgery. Medicare will not cover the pill. We have got to change and modernize Medicare so that our seniors are not left in the situation of getting up in the morning and saying do I eat today, do I get my breakfast, or do I get my medicine? Too many seniors in this country find themselves in that situation. I have been conducting a prescription drug fairness campaign in Michigan now for a year. I set up a hotline, have asked seniors to write, to call, to share with me their situations so we can put names and faces on this problem and encourage, plead and beg with this Congress to act now.”