"If Republicans go after Medicaid the way they did in 2017 by cutting Federal support to State Medicaid programs... that guaranteed backstop of nursing home care for seniors is ripped away."
"Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal."
"We certainly are not going to go backwards; at least certainly the majority in the United States Senate is not going to go backwards."
"I am a very strong supporter of accelerated approval for these very exciting new drugs for Alzheimer's."
"There is no reason why a drug that we know costs no more than about $10 to manufacture should be costing seniors $100, $200."
"Some Medicare Advantage plans misrepresent how sick their patients are to CMS, in order to take more money from taxpayers."
"I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years."
"MedPAC estimates it cost us over $20 billion--$20 billion--in 2023 alone."
"none of us wants America to return to that time."
"When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of ..."
"I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics."