Frank Pallone: “if the gentleman will remember specifically, they actually went the opposite direction, because they wanted to eliminate…”

“if the gentleman will remember specifically, they actually went the opposite direction, because they wanted to eliminate the Medicaid, not Medicare, but the Medicaid price structure, if you will. And actually they did vote to do that at one point and suggested that somehow it was something that the pharmaceutical industry opposed; that somehow the pharmaceutical industry did not want to eliminate the pricing structure that existed under Medicaid. That is just not true. That was another thing that was a bone, basically, to the pharmaceutical industry. And then I remember the biggest affront to me is when, I think it was our colleague, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak), who introduced a couple of amendments that would basically use the negotiating or price structure, the price negotiations that we use now for the VA and I guess maybe for military, as well, and we just wanted to take that and use it for seniors. They said no, no, we do not want that; we cannot do that for seniors. We can do it for the military and the veterans, but we cannot do it for the seniors. It was amazing.”