Political Quotes

“we need to tell the full truth about veterans and prescription drugs. This administration has raised the co-pay for medications that veterans get at our VA facilities from $2 to $7 per prescription, a $250 increase. That is the fact. Mr. Speaker, the assets test provided under the Republican plan makes a mockery of one of the key objectives of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, to prevent senior citizens from having to pauperize themselves to get the drugs they need. Think what this means. It means that a frail elderly woman who qualifies for a handicapped sticker on her car because she cannot walk a short distance cannot keep a car that she cannot be confident will not break down on the highway if she wants to qualify for the assistance she needs to get the drugs her doctor prescribes. It means that a spouse who has managed to buy a burial plot, a burial plot so that they can lie for eternity next to a husband or wife may have to sell that plot to get the prescription drugs they need to survive. For shame. Those of you who want to give a death tax elimination for the multi-millionaires in this country have no problem with requiring grandma to give up her burial plot in order to qualify for the assistance under this plan. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”