Deborah Koff Ross: “I live in a small town, a town that lost its hospital back in 1995. Our folks now go 16 miles down the road to the…”

“I live in a small town, a town that lost its hospital back in 1995. Our folks now go 16 miles down the road to the hospital in Hope, Arkansas. Living in a small town, I see so many seniors that end up 16 miles down the road in the hospital running up a $25,000 or $50,000 Medicare bill, or requiring $250,000 worth of kidney dialysis, or having a $50,000 leg amputation, simply because they cannot afford their medicine or cannot afford to take it properly. This is America, and we can do better than that by our seniors, America's greatest generation. There has been a lot of talk in Washington about trying to help our seniors with the high cost of prescription drugs, but that is all we have seen and that is all we have gotten, has been a lot of talk.”