Senate Proceeding 07-14-09 on Jul 14th, 2009 :: 0:23:30 to 0:25:55
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Pat Roberts: but i'm hop the american people -- . roberts: -- hope you'd explain we have real concerns and i hope we can get real health care. mr. w?ker: i thank the senator. mr. roberts: i also thank the senator. let me give you one quick answer of what i'm talking about here in the president of the kansas farm assistance association is from a

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Speech By: Pat Roberts

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Pat Roberts: very small town out west. we go into the farm seufplt the pharmacists, we ought to give them a medicare part-d, the prescription drug program, very po let's say a lady named mildred came in to see her

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Pat Roberts: pharmaceutical and and mildred talk to tom and said what's this doughnut hole? tom said that's where you have to pay a bigger copayment. mildred said can't i get a new kind of program or something else that will help me out here? and he says there's 47 new programs that you can choose from.

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Pat Roberts: and, mildred, the one you want is right here. she says, good, then? i'm not going to get hurt with the cost of the prescriptions that i?x need. he says, but i can't offer it to you. why? he says because i'll only get reim and that is about the national average. now how on earth can we expect every pharmacist all around the

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Pat Roberts: country to administer -- and they are the ones doing the administering. it isn't the area the 1-800-medicare. try that. if i'm mad about my cell phone ringing, dia 1-800-medicare. you'll never get an answer. he had to tell her the one program in medicare part-d, he

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Pat Roberts: didn't get reimbursed enough and couldn't offer it. he helped her out. all pharmacists try to do that. that's where we are. or if mildred goes to a doctor and all of a sudden the doctor says i'm sorry, i can't take any more medicare patients. that's happening. it's real. and this bill exacerbates that. exacerbates it. that's why i'm so upset and why

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Pat Roberts: i came to the senate today. i'll go back to the committee to work in good faith with my colleagues. i know we're supposed to have a markup thursday. marching orders from the leadership right in the middle of a defense authorization bill. we don't need marching orders. we need to slow down.