Reduce Prescription Costs

CONservative Spin:

“seniors and people with disabilities like the benefit. Studies consistently show that three-quarters of Medicare beneficiaries are satisfied with their coverage.”
 Source

Mike Leavitt, "Medicare And the Market," The Washington Post, January 11, 2007." Retrieved on December 14, 2007, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002020.html.

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PROgressive Response:

By Roger Hickey
November 7th, 2007
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85% of American adults favor allowing the federal government to use its buying power to negotiate with drug companies to try to get a lower price for Medicare prescription drugs.

76% of American adults favor Allowing seniors the choice of obtaining their prescription drug plan directly from Medicare - instead of from a private insurance company.

Question to ask: Wouldn't seniors be more satisfied with lower drug prices? And why not save taxpayer money?

 Source

"The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New Congress and Presidential Campaign," The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, December, 2006. Retrieved on December 14, 2007, from http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7598.pdf.

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