Deborah Koff Ross: “I have seen so many seniors walk through the doors of our pharmacy who either could not afford their medicine or could…”

“I have seen so many seniors walk through the doors of our pharmacy who either could not afford their medicine or could not afford to take it properly. And living in a small town, Prescott, Arkansas, population 3,400, I know a week or two later that senior is 16 miles down the road in Hope, Arkansas, in the hospital having a leg amputated, running up a $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 Medicare bill for other complications simply because they could not afford their medicine or could not afford to take it properly. So I ran for Congress to try and modernize Medicare to include medicine for our seniors. But I got to town and learned it is a big drug manufacturers' issue. This is not a seniors bill we are going to be voting on this week. This is a bill written by the big drug manufacturers to benefit the big drug manufacturers. I am sick and tired of all this partisan bickering.”