[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4286]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   PRESCRIPTION DRUG PROGRAM WORKING

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, it appears that the more the 
Democrats talk down the new Medicare prescription drug program, the 
more the enrollments seem to go up. Democrats have been doing nothing 
but demagoguing and criticizing this program, yet the U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services announced just last week that more than 27 
million Medicare beneficiaries are now getting coverage and saving 
money on their prescription drugs.
  In fact, they just announced that another 1.9 million additional 
beneficiaries have signed up just since February. This is wonderful 
news. Even the New York Times is reporting success stories from seniors 
who signed up for the program and are now saving hundreds, if not 
thousands, of dollars on their prescriptions.
  Mr. Speaker, this prescription drug benefit is doing something that 
most Democrats probably didn't even think would happen, maybe they 
didn't want to have happen: it is helping seniors; it is reducing their 
costs.
  As nice as it would be to hear Democrats stop for a moment and 
actually admit that this program is a success, perhaps they should just 
keep up their futile demagoguery, because at this rate, we will be at 
100 percent enrollment in no time at all.

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