Political Quotes

“Before we left for the Fourth of July recess, we passed historic legislation to improve Medicare, to strengthen Medicare, and to offer for the first time a prescription drug benefit through the Medicare Program for our seniors and individuals with disabilities. We worked hard in that endeavor to produce a bipartisan consensus, working together on both sides of the aisle, with this common mission, this common goal, and we succeeded. We were successful in passing a bipartisan bill that for the first time since 1965, in the history of Medicare, offers access to this new prescription drug benefit, and at the same time reforms, modernizes, and strengthens Medicare in a very significant way. Both individuals with disabilities and seniors collectively, 40 million people, will have health care coverage that in the future will be responsive to their needs in order to achieve that goal of health care security after the age of 65 or, if you are an individual with a disability, in the near future.”