Political Quotes

“If we take the legislation that we passed and match it to our current program, our PACE program, which by the way is the best program in the whole country, there are, I think, 300,000 low-income seniors in Pennsylvania who receive almost virtually cost free drugs under the PACE program financed by our lottery, the PACE Net program elevates the standard, so with some copay even more middle-class Americans, Pennsylvanians, I should say, get the benefit. And the legislature, because the State of Pennsylvania also has a surplus, has just proposed even raising the levels higher to reach into the middle class. So by the time we take this Federal legislation that we have passed here and relieve the State of Pennsylvania, our State, of the burden of the lowest income and then you add all of those new State dollars and the existing lottery dollars to that, we will have virtually cost free or certainly no premiums, no copays, no deductibles for a very significant portion, well up into the middle class, in Pennsylvania, and so it makes these benefits completely affordable to every one of our constituents.”