It is just incredible that the Congress has passed something to put more confusion in seniors' lives, to make the choices more difficult, more complicated. One of 50 cards that gives a small discount instead of using the buying power of 40 million Medicare beneficiaries to get one good discount that every senior can put in his wallet or in her purse and get a good 30, 40, 50 percent discount like the Canadians and the French and the Germans and the Japanese and the Israelis and the Swedes and everybody else.
Sherrod Brown: “It is just incredible that the Congress has passed something to put more confusion in seniors' lives, to make the…”
On the recordMay 5, 2004
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Criticizing a new Medicare program that complicates choices for seniors.
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