Rod Grams: “No, that provision is intended to be descriptive. The Mint is instructed to utilize anticounterfeiting technology.”

I am not opposed to a surcharge or a prescription charge but a charge that is going to assume a new $600-per-year additional tax or cost on our seniors while providing very little in benefit that would overcome that cost.

It would cover 100 percent of everything over a $25 copay and a $150-a-month deductible for those who are in that income level or above.

But his plan is not voluntary. You can voluntarily get in, but when you do not get in, you can't reapply. That is my understanding.

Because what we are trying to do is target those who need the help, and that is about 6 or maybe 10 percent of the population. What the Vice President is doing and what you are talking about is bringing 100 percent of Americans under a new…