#seniors

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#beneficiaries #cancer #care #cure #ensure

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts. ↗

— Brad Henry

#children #creative #faith #heroes #innovation

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#companies #coverage #decreased #employers #former

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#choose #costs #discount #enroll #federal

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options. ↗

— Suze Orman

#high #high school #lot #many #money

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#diabetes #kept #like #new #preventive

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#asking #benefits #better #congress #deal

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#better #communities #deserve #economy #families

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#changed #coverage #halls #however #i

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#because #being #break #college #cry