Political Quotes

“I think the Senator too would be interested in the accounting and some of the sleight of hand involved in the prescription Part D. We put a prescription Part D in so people would have a little better chance of paying for their prescriptions--a very difficult program. It was very expensive. I know in my State we were looking at only two people who were selling pharmaceuticals to seniors. I thought, boy, when this program goes in, there probably won't be any. But when it was opened to a wide choice, I found out there were 46 companies that wanted the business in Wyoming, and it turned out to be a very successful program at helping people. In this affordable care act, of course, they do some things with the doughnut hole which are a little sleight of hand, because some of the companies that sell brandname prescription drugs agreed they would reimburse people for a part or up to all of their medications while they went through that doughnut hole, knowing when they got out of the doughnut hole they would stay with that brandname and it would cost the whole program a lot more. So in an area where we were saving money and could have fixed it so seniors had a better chance at it but not giving an advantage to the brandname drug users would have actually saved some money in the program, but that didn't happen.…”