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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (452558)	9/4/2003 2:24:10 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 769670

Liberals on the drug industry - We need government to force them to lower their prices. Congress on prescription drugs... cfmresearch.tripod.com LET THEM EAT CAKE By Conrad F. Meier In a rare burst of speed, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation assuring federal employees, and members of Congress, will have prescription drug benefits better than those available to the people whose interests they presumably represent. Even as Congress wrestles with House and Senate versions of a Medicare reform package, which includes prescription drugs, the new House bill guarantees drug benefits for civilian federal retirees cannot be reduced to the level proposed under Medicare reform. A similar bill is in the Senate. Taxpayers and voters--especially senior citizens--should be outraged. Apparently, the prescription drug benefit Congress is cooking up for the rest of us is so lousy the folks paid by our tax dollars want nothing to do with it...