Political Quotes

“I rise this morning, after having listened to Washington Journal, wherein the head of the Medicare- Medicaid program said, seniors are now, in fact, in a program with this discount drug card where they can pool their resources and get lower prices for their drugs. If that is what we are doing with the discount drug card, why, in fact, did the legislation itself not allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to seek best prices on prescription drugs for seniors? I say, as we talk about covering the uninsured this week, we ought to be covering our seniors. They ought to have a prescription drug benefit that gives them one card without all of this complication where they have to ruffle through cards, ruffle through the Internet when they do not even have access to be able to determine what is the best way for them to get their prescription drugs. Cover seniors. Give them the benefit they have worked for; give them the benefit they deserve.”