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Medicare Prescription Drugs

Date: July 20, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Drugs


MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS -- (House of Representatives - July 20, 2004)

(Mr. WHITFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, one uplifting message for the American people is the legislation that this House passed relating to the prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

This weekend I hosted three meetings in my district. Vicki Mayes came to one of those meetings. This was what she said. When she used her Medicare-approved drug discount card for the first time a week and a half ago, she was shocked. Drugs that normally cost her $50 cost her only $2.90. On Thursday when she went to the pharmacy for two more refills, drugs that would normally cost her $54 cost her $16.90.

All of us can be proud of this new prescription drug benefit passed by this Congress. As President Bush said, it was the most important expansion of Medicare that we have had since the inception of the Medicare program.

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