Sean Reyes: “I have a long been a strong advocate for an affordable, comprehensive Medicare prescription drug benefit, but I am…”

“I have a long been a strong advocate for an affordable, comprehensive Medicare prescription drug benefit, but I am opposed to this bill. I am opposed because the bill before us tonight would harm, rather than help, more than 77,000 Medicare beneficiaries in my district by breaking this program's promise of guaranteed quality health care for our seniors. In my district, where approximately one in five seniors live below the poverty line, Medicare and Social Security are their only safety net in retirement. To jeopardize this safety net would be unconscionable. I urge my colleagues to oppose this conference report so Congress can instead offer America's seniors the kind of Medicare prescription drug benefit that they need and more than anything that they deserve.”