http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/09/medic...s.ap/index.html


Where do we get the extra 320 billion to fund it????

If the price tag was 720 Billion to begin with would the people we elected pass the drug benefit bill???

What's the answer? Most of these old people can't afford their prescriptions even with this little bit of assistance. I suppose it is too much to ask that something be done about the huge profit-taking by the pharmaceutical companies. Heck! The whole deal was just a windfall for the pharmaceuticals anyway. They just kept raising their prices. It's obscene!

It is nice for the federal government to help pay for drug costs, but since the government is not doing anything to help lower drug prices without this benefit. That is not good.

When this was a campaign issue in 2000 I listened with interest to the proposals, and concluded that it would never happen, because without tight management of the drug benefit, including formulary restrictions, it wouldn't be affordable. It never occurred to me that they would merely pass an unaffordable program!
How can one have faith in a Congress that does idiotic things like this, spends $200+ Billion on a war, cuts taxes, raises benefits for itself, and adjourns to be overwhelmingly reelected more or less in the same form? A total failure of leadership. In times past, people would rise up and do something about it.