Sen. Menendez: Rx for Health Care Reform: Bipartisanship
July 24, 2017
July 24, 2017
WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The office of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., issued the following op-ed:
In 2003, when President George Bush and the Republican Congress passed the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, I voted against it. Like most Democrats, I couldn't support a plan that left millions of seniors - including my mother who suffered from Alzheimer's - with huge prescription drug bills under what would later become known as the Medicare "donut hole."
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In 2003, when President George Bush and the Republican Congress passed the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, I voted against it. Like most Democrats, I couldn't support a plan that left millions of seniors - including my mother who suffered from Alzheimer's - with huge prescription drug bills under what would later become known as the Medicare "donut hole."
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