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To: skinowski who wrote (148793)	11/26/2005 12:00:47 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793956

Benefits should have been means tested, rather than creating another wholesale entitlement. OK, I see what you mean. I thought you might be saying that $32/mo is too high a premium. I took the time this morning for the first time to calculate how much my meds cost. It comes out to $3700/yr that I and my insurer pay. Now, I'm a healthy person. I have no known disease. That cost is for two meds each for blood pressure and cholesterol, all but one of which are expensive. I quickly googled and found that about a third of adults have high blood pressure and half have high cholesterol. Which means that a very large majority of Medicare eligibles have both. If you assume that a large majority of Medicare patients are taking one drug each for reducing those indicators, then the average Medicare participant has a drug bill of a couple of thousand dollars on top of any other disease they may have. Which $32/mo comes nowhere close to paying.