Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
10/05/2007
Pelosi: Once Again, Bush Administration Proposing to Increase Rx Drug Premiums for Millions of Seniors
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following
statement today on news reports of a proposal by the Bush Administration and
Republicans in Congress that would increase costs for beneficiaries of the
Medicare prescription drug program:
“Once again, the Bush Administration is proposing to
increase premiums and deductibles on millions of seniors’ prescription drug
costs. This ill-conceived plan is the
result of the Bush Administration not paying for the poorly-designed drug plan
Republicans passed four years ago.
“Before raising the out-of-pocket costs of seniors for their
prescription drugs, the Administration ought to embrace provisions passed by
the House earlier this year that would produce tens of billions in taxpayers’
savings by phasing out the enormous overpayments to private Medicare Advantage
plans, as recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
“The Administration’s plan to raise seniors’ drug costs illustrates a continued failure to recognize the serious problems in our health care system, from the President’s damaging veto of the bill providing children’s health insurance for 10 million children to his veto of life-saving stem cell medical research.”