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“as the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Thurman) just pointed out, we offered the Republican majority an opportunity in the Committee on Ways and Means last fall in the Thurman-Doggett proposal to deal with this problem of prescriptions for our seniors. It was soundly rejected, as it is in this resolution. Instead of addressing the price discrimination that our seniors face where, in Travis County, for example, on the five most commonly used drugs, those seniors who do not have insurance are paying 136 percent more than the most favored customers of the pharmaceutical industry, instead of addressing that discrimination which could be done for very little no cost to the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry's best friends in this Congress are blocking action. What do they offer in this proposal as an alternative? A new welfare program. I can tell my colleagues that our seniors do not need another welfare program. What they need is an end to the discrimination that the pharmaceutical industry, backed by its many Republican supporters in this Congress, cause our American seniors to face with reference to getting the essentials for their health care. But of course there is a medicinal aspect to this resolution.”