Lindsey Graham: “for the past 3 days I have been discussing the need to reform Medicare and the fundamental reform of shifting Medicare…”

“for the past 3 days I have been discussing the need to reform Medicare and the fundamental reform of shifting Medicare from being a program that focuses on sickness and dealing with disease and the consequences of accidents after they happen, to a health care system that focuses on wellness and maintaining the highest possible quality of life. I pointed out that an essential ingredient of any wellness strategy is prescription drugs. Prescription drugs are a modality in virtually every form of therapy which is designed to reverse disease conditions or to manage those conditions. Yesterday, I talked about the fact that the prescription drug benefit for senior Americans should be provided through the Medicare program. It is the program which the seniors themselves have indicated over and over that they believe in, they trust, they have confidence in, and that they would like it to be the program through which this additional benefit would be added to all the other benefits that are available through Medicare. They would also like prescription drugs to be available through Medicare.”