Ron Pollack
Ron Pollack
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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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What that says to an HMO is, well, heck, we'll just delay and delay and deny and deny, because the worst thing that could happen to us is we'll have to pay for the service we originally denied,
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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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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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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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This program, with such large expenditures, is only adding a small number of people to drug coverage.
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Republicans have to decide: Do we create an issue in 2000 or do we provide what people want: real patient protection,
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People who need healthcare the most, those with serious health conditions, with illnesses and disabilities are going to be potentially harmed in a very significant way by this proposal.
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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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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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What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.
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Year after year, as drug prices rise much faster than inflation, more and more seniors are forced to go without much-needed medications. The millions of low-income seniors, who subsist on Social Security checks that rise no faster than inflation, can no longer afford skyrocketing drug prices. Congress must act now to provide real relief to them.
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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,