Felix Grucci: “The thing that we use together between the prescription drug benefit is the uncertainty our seniors have over the…”

“The thing that we use together between the prescription drug benefit is the uncertainty our seniors have over the rhetoric that is coming out about their Social Security and are they going to lose it, are their benefits going to be taken away from them, are we going to pay for a prescription drug benefit and the health care of our Nation on the backs of our seniors through their Social Security? When I tell them there is no plan, neither a Democrat nor Republican plan to do away with Social Security or to privatize Social Security, a word that seems to have been cropping up in the vernacular these days in an attempt to scare our senior citizens into believing that there is some evil plan afoot here in Congress to do away with their Social Security or to privatize it and put it in jeopardy, when they understand that is not the case and that is not going to happen and they realize that this prescription drug benefit is actually new monies and not coming on the backs of their Social Security, they really understand the benefit that this program is going to have for them.”