Frank Pallone: “It is such a cruel hoax, too, because as both of you have pointed out, this is a real problem. We are getting real…”

“It is such a cruel hoax, too, because as both of you have pointed out, this is a real problem. We are getting real people coming up to us on a regular basis saying that they are suffering. How cruel it is really for the Republican leadership in this House to say, well, we are going to solve their problem by throwing a few bucks at the insurance industry when the insurance industry is telling us that they are not going to provide the benefits, anyway. I just wondered if I could for a minute go back to this article in the New York Times that talked about what had happened in Nevada. Nevada as I said in March of this year passed a piece of legislation that was very similar to what the House Republicans had proposed in terms of providing subsidies to seniors if they could go out and buy an insurance policy that covered prescription drugs. It has been a total failure.”