Thomas Daschle: “I find it ironic--and I am interested in the comments of the Senator from Michigan--that our seniors today appear to be…”

“I find it ironic--and I am interested in the comments of the Senator from Michigan--that our seniors today appear to be voting with their feet in driving in large buses and caravans to Canada to get health care today. What does that say about the American health care system? What does that say about Medicare? What does that say about their own satisfaction with a system that appears to be so broken, so incapable of providing them the care they need, they have to go to another country to get it in order to afford it? That, too, is voting with one's feet. I find that whether it is in letters to the Senator, or letters to any of us, or in the expressions of dismay, the current circumstances they face, more and more of our seniors are voting with their feet, going to Canada, to another health care system, to get what they cannot get here.”