On the recordJuly 9, 2003
I believe very strongly that neither of these proposals... accomplish the goal of providing America's seniors with a prescription drug benefit that is worth having. I say that because I think it has to be understood that the effort to provide a prescription drug benefit is basically an effort to... get almost all seniors involved on a voluntary basis in a prescription drug program that they would see as meaningful, that covers most of their drug expenses, and if we look at the bills that were passed by the Republican leadership in both Houses of Congress, they do not do that. Essentially what happens is that seniors have to pay out more in terms of premiums than they would get for the most part.
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