Tom Strickland on Health Care 2002 Democratic Challenger (CO)

Control prescription drug prices

Add prescription benefit in Medicare

Tom recently unveiled his plan to address the high costs of prescription drugs by addressing the problem in three significant ways. Tom's plan would:
1. add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare
2. require drug companies to sell their medications to American Seniors at the average foreign price those drugs are sold for in other countries; and

3. bring more competition to the prescription drug market by speeding the introduction of generic drugs.

Under Tom's plan:
• Seniors pay only $25 per month for their prescription drug benefit-guaranteed; Seniors get help paying for their prescriptions starting from their very first trip to the pharmacy
• Seniors receive a 50% co-insurance policy with no gaps or holes in the benefit; and
• Seniors with the highest drug costs receive 100% assistance.