Lindsey Graham: “in my 60 seconds let me say there are two areas of agreement. Apparently we have now agreed that it is going to take in…”

“in my 60 seconds let me say there are two areas of agreement. Apparently we have now agreed that it is going to take in the range of $300 billion over 10 years to have a credible prescription drug benefit. That is a significant advance. No. 2, frankly, there is no disagreement with the fact that we should strive to reform Medicare. We all start with exactly the same language, which is on page 49 of the amendment, which talks about the Finance Committee reporting reforms in Medicare. What we also heard in our most recent hearing on this subject is that the most anybody has ever suggested that reform could amount to would be approximately $50 billion in a $3 trillion Medicare program over the next 10 years. Let's not exaggerate what kind of savings we are going to get. Where we disagree is how we are going to finance this.”