Political Quotes

“And the thing that is so important is that we have as a Nation now developed our health care in a delivery system where we can engage in preventive health care. And if we could engage in preventive health care with certain prescription drugs, then we could really save ourselves dollars on the other end of the lifeline. We need to be able to provide the necessary prescription drug benefit to people at an early age, to keep them from getting themselves in harm's way. One of the prevalent conditions that exists across the country is the whole issue of diabetes and trying to reach diabetes at an early age so individuals do not develop to the level where they have to take insulin, which is much more costly than watching your diet and taking some type of prescription. That would be significant in all families. Let us even take a look at the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis), our colleague, who was talking earlier about the whole issue of prostate cancer and having the ability to do the diagnosis, the preventive care, the type of prescription drugs to be able to arrest that situation early on and to give advice and counsel. That would be significant.”