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To: Rambi who wrote (52051)	3/6/2008 10:00:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540830

I haven't yet had to try Medicare As a newly inducted member of Medicare, I was greeted with my Welcome to Medicare page and brochure. I found I get a one-time formerly-known-as-annual physical but only if I schedule it in the first six months. I also get a one-time screening for an aortic aneurism but only if I get the referral for it during my one-time physical. Haven't scheduled it yet. I'm just so excited about the beneficence of the program that I haven't been able to grasp the phone to make the call. I wonder how folks who are used to Blue Cross would feel about switching to that as our national program.

To: Rambi who wrote (52051)	3/6/2008 10:33:36 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540830

They haven't seemed very willing to address the issue thus far- adding only a strange and complex Rx program. Everything I read about the drug program is that it was an intentional give away to the drug industry. I don't doubt the predicate, that there are serious needs among seniors, particularly ones who are dependent on expensive and repetitive prescriptions. I'm sure you've read as many of those stories as I have. But the Rep Congress passed a bill that did not discriminate along those lines and made it impossible for the government to benefit from scaling efficiencies by blocking them from negotiating block purchases. I see this as less about "government" and more about the growing ways in which business lobbies control government outcomes.