Political Quotes

“a Congress that can find hundreds of billions of dollars in money for tax cuts and the money to rebuild a foreign country must find a way to make Medicare work better for the Nation's vulnerable senior citizens. That is what the next two weeks are all about, and they are historic weeks for the Senate. Updating Medicare is an issue I have felt very strongly about for several decades because my public service career began in the early 1970s, when I served as codirector of the Oregon Gray Panthers and ran the Oregon Legal Services Program for the elderly. Back then, the old saw was that Medicare was just half a loaf. Of course, from its beginning, Medicare did not cover eyeglasses, hearing aids, dental care, and a host of services that are so important to vulnerable older people. But of particular concern, even then, was the fact that medicine, in so many instances, was both unaffordable and inaccessible. Now the Senate has an opportunity to do something about that in providing a real measure of relief for the Nation's older people.”