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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (26541)	4/29/2004 2:16:50 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Compare this Department of Health and Human Services press release on Medicaid drug purchasing . . . hhs.gov . . . to this press release from Senator Feinstein. Note the 6th paragraph in the press release also. feinstein.senate.gov So, here we go. 1. States are praised by the federal Department of Health and Human Services for using their combined purchasing power to negotiate lower prices from the drug firms under the federal Medicaid program. 2. The federal Department of Health and Human Services is prohibited from negotiating lower drug prices from the drug firms under the federal Medicare program. 3. The federal Department of Veterans Affairs routinely negotiates lower prices with drug firms so that they can save taxpayer money in treating veterans. To some, this may make no sense. However, I have a simple solution. It is necessarily a 2-step solution. 1. Send all the poor and elderly under Medicaid or Medicare to Iraq to qualify them as veterans. We need the extra troops anyway. 2. Have the federal government's Department of Veterans Affairs continue to negotiate discounts with the drug firms and provide those drugs--at the discounted prices--to the poor and elderly veterans. Are you sure you don't want to go back and talk about Nukes?