Joe Pitts: “too many seniors and disabled people in this country cannot afford the prescription drugs their doctors say they need.…”

“too many seniors and disabled people in this country cannot afford the prescription drugs their doctors say they need. Seniors should never have to choose between food and medicine. This is an important issue that needs a meaningful solution, not the empty rhetoric that we are hearing from the other side. House Republicans are proposing a plan to offer a fair and responsible drug plan that is affordable, available and voluntary to all seniors and disabled Americans. Mr. Speaker, it will help folks to get prescription drug coverage at lower costs by creating group buying power without Washington interference or big government-style price controls. We will reduce the runaway costs of medicine, but not with a Washington-based one-size-fits-all program that kills research and innovation of live-saving cures. Mr. Speaker, it is time to modernize prescription drug coverage. We should all be working together on this important issue. Let us stop the partisan rhetoric and do the right thing for our seniors.”