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http://www.msnbc.com/news/997010.asp?0sl=-11
I hope this hasn't been posted before, as I think this survery alone shows how ridiculous the recent Medicare drug benefit plan is.
Given all the excitement, you?d think that passing a Medicare drug benefit would solve one of the nation?s pressing social problems. It won?t. But you wouldn?t know that from politicians or the press. They treat the elderly?s problems in getting drugs as a major social crisis. You would know it if you?d read a government survey of Medicare recipients in 2002. It asked this question: ?In the last six months, how much of a problem, if any, was it to get the prescription medicine you needed?? The answers were 86.4 percent, not a problem; 9.4 percent, a small problem; 4.2 percent, a big problem.
I hope this hasn't been posted before, as I think this survery alone shows how ridiculous the recent Medicare drug benefit plan is.