Deborah Koff Ross: “I have begged, I have pleaded, I have scratched, I have crawled to try and get a hearing on my first bill, H.R. 3626. I…”

“I have begged, I have pleaded, I have scratched, I have crawled to try and get a hearing on my first bill, H.R. 3626. I could not get a hearing on that. Now I am pleased to be one of four of the original lead sponsors on this new plan which incorporates much of what was in my earlier bill. It is like all we get from the other side of the aisle is a lot of games. We get a lot of games on the need to truly modernize Medicare, to include medicine for our seniors, and that is so unfortunate. First out of the chute was this idea that what our seniors needed was a discount prescription drug card, a discount card, like it was some new novel concept. My dad got one in the mail for free 6 months ago. A person can watch any cable TV program late at night and for $7.95 a month they can get one. Why do they want to push a discount card? Because any savings which averages 50 cents to $3 came at the expense of a hometown family pharmacy and did not cost the big drug manufacturers a dime.”