Political Quotes

“The point that I was thinking about making right now is that this conversation almost always turns towards the senior beneficiary of Medicare, and the gentleman has frequently in his remarks cojoined the fact that there are seniors and there is the disabled population that in fact are eligible for Social Security. And what is important to remember, when we think about that disabled community, that disabled community includes those who have very serious physical disabilities, frequently because of complicated and debilitating illnesses; and these are people who are under the age of 65. We forget about the fact they do not have prescription drug benefits either. And they are less likely to have prescription drug benefits coming from a an employer, because they are less likely because of their disability, obviously, to have worked for an employer long enough to have had a prescription drug benefit that carries into the years when they cannot work and they are on disability. So this is another group of people who certainly need this benefit and they need it soon.”