Medicare: Got Drugs? By David Moberg
07 Dec 2003
Submitted by: Alternative Press Center Publisher:
In These Times (12/5/03)
The new Medicare prescription law is a policy disaster. It offers a pittance or worse for most elderly, is a boondoggle for the drug and insurance companies, and threatens to privatize and dismantle Medicare itself. But because Republicans now can claim they delivered a prescription drug plan for seniors, political strategists in both parties regard it as a big boost to Bush's re-election bid. David Moberg reports.
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