Lizzie Fletcher: “we appreciate the gentlewoman's leadership role and her coming. As the gentlewoman was talking about those low-income…”

“we appreciate the gentlewoman's leadership role and her coming. As the gentlewoman was talking about those low-income seniors, I was reminded of a senior that I talked to. It was a group of seniors, but one of the individuals from a senior citizens center came up and talked to me who managed it. He said there was a gentleman in that center, and that the first half of the month he was just a perfect gentleman in every way. The last half of the month, however, his countenance and behavior changed substantially. When they really investigated, it was because he was a low-income senior, fixed income, and could only take his medicine for half a month. That is all he could afford. So this plan is doable. It is not a pie-in-the-sky plan that we see the minority offering. That pie-in-the-sky plan would actually keep us from passing this bill as we pass it if the Senate does not take it up. Yet this would provide for that gentleman I am talking about, for the seniors the gentlewoman has alluded to and talked about specifically. It would provide 100 percent coverage for these low-income seniors. It would prevent that gentleman I was talking about from having that terrible experience of having to just take half a month of his medications and then have the consequences of that. So I thank the gentlewoman for joining me.”