On the recordJune 17, 2003
About one third. And I say shame on us because we have the power to do something about that. I spoke several weeks ago to the Community Pharmacists, and I just had received this report from the Kaiser Foundation. I asked them as I looked out over this audience of roughly 300 pharmacists from all over the United States, 'Has this ever happened to you, where seniors come into the pharmacy, they hand you a prescription and you tell them how much it is going to be, and they drop their head and they say, 'well, I will be back tomorrow,' and they never come back?' Shame on us. Shame on us. We need to do something about that. But as has been mentioned by several of my colleagues, if we go about this in the wrong way, we may not do enough to really help those seniors who really need the help. But, worse than that, we may bankrupt our children, and there is something wrong with that.
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