10/05/2011
https://congress.gov...
"what the Republicans are proposing in repealing that law is to hike the cost for prescription drugs to seniors in America this year by over $2 billion"
"We know that an earlier generation of Republicans fought Lyndon Johnson in getting Medicare created in the first place with the same fervor that our Republican colleagues are fighting health insurance..."
"And so if we repeal that guarantee of no copayment, seniors will have to pay more for those services. Their health care costs under the Republican plan will increase, will they not?"
"the average individual who would reach this donut hole gap in coverage... will get a little over $500 in benefits under existing law"