Political Quotes

“I think what is so important about H.R. 4680 is that it is a flexible plan so that it fits with what we have in Pennsylvania. Because as the gentleman said, we have this wonderful PACE program, when the Federal Government picks up the part of the program that PACE has handled, then Pennsylvania, as I described before, has all of this extra money to make PACE a wraparound program so that it comes up into the middle class. I have so many constituents that have worked hard all their lives and they have done everything right, and they own their home, and they have saved just a little money, and they have their Social Security benefit. If nothing catastrophic comes along, they can get through their golden years pretty well. But they all live in fear of a catastrophic illness or catastrophic prescription drug cost, which would drain down their resources and lose their nest egg or force them to sell their home to pay these bills. This is a program that removes that fear for senior citizens.”