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Washington D.C. – Calling it a “special interest fiasco,” Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today joined Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) to offer a “Prescription for Change” to fix the disastrous Republican prescription drug benefit.
America's seniors are struggling with a complex and confusing prescription drug plan written for the special interests, implemented so poorly that some Americans can't get the medicine they need. House and Senate Democrats will hold a series of events nationwide next week to discuss the problems people are facing, and to present Democratic proposals to improve the program.
“Illinois seniors wanted a Medicare benefit that would lower their drug prices,” Durbin said. “What they have today is a confusing benefit, a law that prohibits Medicare from negotiating with pharmaceutical companies and a plan that guarantees drug companies billions of dollars in profits. Medicare Part D is a reward for drug companies and a disaster for America's seniors. We must change the benefit to make it fair, reliable and affordable"
"Medicare beneficiaries deserve the prescription drug relief they were promised in 2003 and Democrats have a plan to give it to them," said Dingell, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
President Bush and Congressional Republicans sold the Medicare drug plan to the people as a benefit for seniors, but instead they sold out to the special interests. The plan is a giveaway to drug companies and HMOs, protecting their profits instead of the American people. Meanwhile, seniors and people with disabilities suffer with an overly complex and poorly implemented program, in many cases paying too much and in some cases being denied their medicine entirely.
Democrats are ready to reform the plan, because America's seniors deserve better than this confusing and complex prescription drug benefit.
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