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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (494797)11/18/2003 12:17:31 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
A typical senior without drug coverage will spend $1,356 on drugs this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The new Medicare benefit would save that senior $391, or 29 percent. For those with drug coverage, whose insurance and out-of-pocket drug costs will average $2,322 this year, the discount would be $824, or 35 percent. "For the average middle-class citizen, the benefit is pretty small," said Stephen Crystal, chair of the division on aging at Rutgers University

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (494797)11/18/2003 12:22:27 PM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
the key is AARP...APROVAL FOR A REPUBLICAN PLAN THAT THE DEMOCRATS PROMISED FOREVER BUT NEVER DELIVERED..



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (494797)11/18/2003 1:05:15 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Medicare is troublesome. People want prescription drug benefits but the GOP weakens Medicare's long term liquidity with big giveaways to HMO's. So it's a case of the lesser evil here.


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