Sherrod Brown: “Republicans want Medicare to take a right turn, and that right turn is to expand health maintenance organizations, to…”

“Republicans want Medicare to take a right turn, and that right turn is to expand health maintenance organizations, to deliver the prescription drug benefit through a privatized HMO/insurance system. We want to see Medicare remain a public program and deliver the drug benefit the way it delivers hospital benefits and physician benefits. The Republicans want to put Medicare back into a private insurance scheme just like HMOs and put the prescription drug coverage into that same scheme to privatize the greatest government program in history, Medicare.”