Frank Pallone: “That should not be the result of what we do when we reform Medicare, is wind up with senior citizens being forced to…”

“That should not be the result of what we do when we reform Medicare, is wind up with senior citizens being forced to either turn to their kids or do without, because not everyone has kids. My mother has four kids. We all live in Seattle. Everybody has a job, everybody is working. So my mother would be able to turn to us and we would gladly give her some extra money, but not everybody has four kids who are working, who can give them money. Or they may have four kids who are working, but they are trying to help their kid go to community college or whatever, and they do not have it to spare. So the middle class, the middle age person is going to wind up saying to themselves, should I help mother or should I help my kid?”