Political Quotes

“I see that you have a cost share of up to 70/30. I do not have that. I was just looking at the summary you provided, so I don't know whether there is no cost share for lower income or how the cost share works. All I know is it is up to 70/30. I do not know what that necessarily means. I see there is no deductible, so I was commenting on those two. If there is a cost share throughout, that is a positive thing. Maybe we would share the agreement there needs to be some sort of cost share, particularly for those who are not at poverty level. If you are at poverty level, then the cost share should be minimal because you don't want to use it as a great disincentive to the drugs prescribed to you. But if you have some income, you should have some responsibilities for putting forth some money for these drugs. That is ground we share. As the Senator from Illinois suggests, there is cost sharing under our plan. It is a little bit more than the Senator's. But the Senator's plan is more expensive, a lot more expensive than the plan we have here. The other problem I have is that it does not bring in any kind of private sector incentives, to try to reduce costs. One of the problems with the Medicare system today is it is a top-down, Government-run, one-size-fits-all plan, where the private sector, which administers this plan--Medicare administers it, but they do it through intermediaries which are really private sector entities.”