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    Is there a single, solitary soul around here ...

    ... that would care to try and defend this scam called "The Medicare Reform Bill" that just got pushed and shoved through Congress? My own Senator (Dianne Feinstein) voted for it - pissed me off big time! How anyone with even half a brain could defend it and call it a good thing for Seniors is completely beyond my comprehension. So, who's ready to try?
    woodman

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    Ain't it amazing how....

    you can starve someone for so long that they will gladly suck down a piece of doody and be so thankful to the supplier for it that they will ask him to stay for awhile longer?

    Almost as bad as asking to buy your vote with tax reform that you WILL have to pay back eventually! We didn't vote him in office, we just leased him while we looked for another Clinton! LOL!
    Karl K.

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    I just did some extensive research ...

    ... and I was stunned at what I found out. One of the provisions of this "Reform bill" is that the government is DISALLOWED to make any attempt whatsoever to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for low-income seniors! Now ain't that a kick in the head?

    I also found out that a good portion of the "cost" of this "reform" is in the form of grants and subsidies to the pharmaceuticals and to the HMOs for their participation in the new program!

    The one major part of the bill that sticks in my craw is the fact that the so-called "help" with drug costs for seniors doesn't even come into play for more than TWO YEARS! And Bushie-boy is gonna be campaigning up the ol' gazoo next year to seniors, telling them what a grand thing he did for them ... sheeeeeeeeesh!
    woodman

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    If memory serves me correctly, there was a guy, his VP running mate and his wife that hit the campaign trail a few years ago with this major league 'Pipe Dream" and "Promises" of creating a "National Health Care" plan for ALL americans.

    Remember that??????

    His first run for the office of president he championed 'National Health Care" as a cornerstone of his campaign.

    Fizzled dismally.

    8 years in the Oval Office and ZIPSH!T for health care. In fact, during his tenure health care costs SKYROCKETED.

    There's some major league money and power in the health care industry.

    Evidently, they prefer the "Status Quo".

    Either that or it's "The Republicans" fault. Right?????

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    Angry Keep in mind the words I read years ago...

    the program is this: the rich get richer. This legislation is not for the seniors, it is for the drug companies and the HMO's. People like Bush and the congresspeople (also those they really serve) regard people like US as just the means to their ends. Remember the flap during the Nixon era when Agnew tried to do away with the Bill of Rights? Bush is planning the same, I have heard. Terrorism will be the excuse. We will then be the slaves they have always wanted us to be. Our liberties have galled these people for over two hundred years, and they'll have an end to it...

    Laz

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    This is just the beginnings to get the program privated. It will take until 2006 to see how this bill plays out. But it is interesting to see the democrats are mad because the republicans did something about this rather than keeping it an issue they can run on.

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