Ron Pollack
Ron Pollack
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For all the hullabaloo and all the expenditures, they've only added somewhat more than 3 million people. That's horribly disappointing.
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For an administration that frequently provides inaccurate information, the use of the 25 million enrollment figure breaks new ground in misleading propaganda. The only real number that is worth focusing on is the approximately 4 million to 5 million who now have prescription drug coverage who did not have it prior to the start of the program. Unfortunately, the administration is trying to mask that failure with an exaggerated number that has nothing to do with new people who gained coverage.
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It's the equivalent of throwing a 10-foot rope to someone in a 40-foot hole.
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The most important protections should be part of a real patients' rights bill -- and I stress the word 'real,'
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The seniors who need it the most are the ones facing the biggest obstacles.
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The survey underscores the fundamental flaws of the new Medicare legislation. Those flaws are producing bewilderment and confusion among seniors and will result in a far more costly program for America's seniors and taxpayers.
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Seniors across the country will be absolutely bewildered by the choices they are confronted with and they are going to have a very difficult time navigating those choices.
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Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.
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My guess is the deadline will change. The more fundamental changes will have to await another president because President Bush is so strongly opposed to these.
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When you are dealing with drug prices increasing two, three times the rate of inflation, the impact is extraordinary, especially for a population that is living on a fixed income,
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He didn't even try to make a defense for how well it's working or how it's going to improve. He was silent about it, and that spoke volumes about how the failure is being perceived in the White House.
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I don't believe there's any serious likelihood the private plans will come close to matching the prices that the VA has achieved,
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If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,
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I have not seen a system proposed that realistically provides the subsidies necessary to make an individual mandate work. I'm not crazy about employer-based systems, but that's what we've got, and I would like to strengthen rather than weaken it.