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President Bush Avoids AARP Gathering Because Nevada Seniors and Disabled Forced to Pay More for Medication with New Medicare Law

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SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico seniors and disabled people with very low incomes will be forced to pay much more for medication they need to live because of President Bush's new prescription drug law, according to a new report released today by the Institute for America's Future. more »

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri seniors and disabled people with very low incomes will be forced to pay much more for medication they need to live because of President Bush's new prescription drug law, according to a new report released today by the Institute for America's Future. more »

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America's Future Co-director Roger Hickey today criticized President Bush's desperate attempt to curry favor with seniors increasingly disappointed with his new prescription drug law. Responding to recent public opinion polls, President Bush today shifted his public position on importing prescription drugs at a campaign event in Hudson, Mo. more »

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America's Future Co-director Roger Hickey said that today marks day one of President Bush's new prescription drug law's payback to companies that invested millions of dollars in Republican politicians.

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WASHINGTON — More than 5,500 people organized by the Institute for America's Future and TomPaine.com today demanded that Congress take back the money the Bush Administration funneled to HMOs in the new prescription drug law. President Bush's new Medicare law gives HMOs $46 billion — 3 times the amount the Bush Administration promised. more »

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America's Future Co-director Roger Hickey today said the Social Security and Medicare trustees released a misleading annual report based on questionable Bush Administration figures. Hickey noted that the report reflects President Bush's political agenda by showing that the fiscal state of Social Security and Medicare is much worse than last year.

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WASHINGTON - Campaign for America's Future Co-director Roger Hickey today demanded that television networks pull President Bush's Medicare ads off the air because the General Accounting Office found them misleading. more »

WASHINGTON – The Campaign for America's Future and MoveOn.org coordinated more than 3000 people across the country last week to demand that Congress repeal and replace President Bush 's new prescription drug law that hands massive new corporate profits to drug companies in more than 120 meetings with their Reps. and Senators during the congressional recess. more »

As seniors read the fine print, the outrage grows over a prescription deal that undermines Medicare, keeps drug prices high, and pumps billions into the pockets of drug companies and HMOs.  A grassroots movement led by the Institute for America’s Future (IAF), Alliance for Retired Americans, USAction and countless other defenders of Medicare is growing.

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