Under this proposal, if you go to the information that we have on the website, you would have to make $400,000 net income, that’s line 236 in federal income tax, you would have to make $400,000 before you have to pay 100 percent of glasses, $1,000 dental benefits, and 100 percent of your prescription drugs. You would have to make $150,000 before you start making some contribution. That is being competitive. I would challenge any other government in the land who would pay for thousand dollar dental fees and glasses without a means test when you’re making $200,000-plus.

The Member should support this proposal where we are going to provide access to children and working families right now who do not have that. I would argue that somebody making $70,000 a year could benefit from a $1,000 dental benefit for each of their children before somebody who’s making $200,000 to $400,000 that they get dental benefits just because they’re of a certain age. I do believe that it’s really important for the seniors out there to know that their benefits will be covered. There are no losers here because we are just asking people who can afford to pay to start contributing.