As we all know, Grassley and other GOP voted for a bill in 2003 called Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 which provided "seniors and individuals with disabilities with a prescription drug benefit, more choices, and better benefits under Medicare.” By the way, the bill was sponsored by Rep. Dennis J. Hastert. This is an excerpt of the bill that Grassley tends to forget when he voted yea on the bill:
Services would include evaluating the individual's need for pain and symptom management, counseling the individual with respect to end-of-life issues and care options, and advising the individual regarding advanced care planning.
And I dug this up from NYT article on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 on the medicare drug benefit bill being stalled by House-Senate Republican. Grassley tried to fight for this bill tooth and nail:
Mr. Grassley is running for re-election and has made clear that increasing payments to rural health care providers is a top priority.
The Des Moines Register, the state's largest newspaper, has published many editorials advocating an increase in Medicare payments to rural hospitals. But the editorials have criticized the underlying prescription drug bill as "worse than nothing," saying it "will offer little or no help for most seniors."
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