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Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003-Conference Report

Date: Nov. 25, 2003
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Drugs

MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG, IMPROVEMENT, AND MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2003-CONFERENCE REPORT

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Massachusetts.

America's parents and grandparents are the losers today, and special interest groups are the winners. America's senior citizens deserve better. This bill does nothing to reduce drug prices, and it starts our Nation down the road toward privatizing Medicare and endangering America's lifeline program that has been a bright beacon for seniors across our country for more than four decades. The pharmaceutical companies and the HMOs will give thanks for this turkey, but America's seniors will get stuffed.

I am going to vote no on this. I hope my colleagues will join me.

I yield the floor.

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