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Rod Grams: “I disagree with the Vice President--if I may reclaim my time--and I will tell you why. Because, as you said, when it…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2000
I disagree with the Vice President--if I may reclaim my time--and I will tell you why. Because, as you said, when it goes into effect in 2002, it is not fully implemented for 6 to 8 years. You might start off with a low payment, but it escalates to $50-a-month premiums fully implemented, and it does provide you have to pay 50 percent, up to $4,000. To compare that with my MEDS plan, we have a $25 copay per month, $300 per year. We do not have a cap for people below 135 percent of poverty. So they will get any amount of drugs for $300 a year compared to the President's $4,000. For some who are on the edge of poverty, they do not have the $4,000, I say to the Senator, to pay for this.
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Rod Grams
Republican · Minnesota
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Debating the implications of a healthcare plan and comparing it to the MEDS plan.

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