Political Quotes

“the seniors of this country, the senior citizens in this country need to understand that what we are dealing with here is an administration that appears to want to obliterate, to get rid of, Medicare as we know it, to make it more of a privatized system where the government no longer has the ultimate responsibility to carry out the promises to provide this defined benefit, guaranteed benefit, guaranteed premium, to all seniors, so that regardless of where the senior lives, they are going to pay the same premium; regardless of where the senior lives, they are going to be entitled to the same benefit. We could just mongrelize, if that is a word, this program so that depending on what State you lived in or what city you lived in, you may have to have a higher premium, you may be denied certain medical benefits and so on. I do not think that is what America's seniors want, quite frankly. I think they want Medicare to be strengthened, to be expanded to include a prescription drug benefit; but they want Medicare to remain, and they do not want it privatized.”