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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (381320)4/29/2008 7:17:00 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574005
 
"use the government's collective bargaining power to negotiate better deals on prescription drugs"

You do know what "negotiate" means, don't you? It's NOT price controls! It means the government will find the lowest cost provider of classes of drugs from among the pharma companies by saying to Merck, "Well, Cadia will sell us Prozac for X - do you want to come back lower?"

Bush's plan has medicare paying RETAIL - only a CHUMP pays retail! Bush's plan MANDATES it.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (381320)4/29/2008 7:18:51 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574005
 
Well, for example, my company and most companies in America use their bargaining power to represent their employees to get better deals for them with the insurance companies. I hope you already knew that.

So then what is the difference between our companies doing it for those of us who have company sponsored health care plans vs our gov't doing it on behalf of citizens who don't have company sponsored health care plans?


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