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To: TimF who wrote (262179)	4/21/2008 8:27:14 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sweet but also naive. Medicare Part D is very definitely an attempt by right wing Republicans to destroy Medicare. "The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats' top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.... ''The government negotiates big discounts for the prices of drugs for our veterans,'' said Senator-elect Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. ''But the drug companies got Congress to make it illegal to negotiate for lower prices under Medicare.'' query.nytimes.com The basic idea is to make Medicare so expensive that it has to be cut, dismantled or (yippee) handed over to the same inefficient, corrupt corporations that have made the US health care system the most expensive (but not the best) system in the world. Yep, that works. That's like handing over Fannie Mae over to Bear Stearns.