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To: Road Walker who wrote (469475)	4/7/2009 4:15:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577019

But RW, like the idiot Z, claimed that Part D was ineffective No I didn't. I do claim it is obscenely expensive. Do you remember when inode used to think Z was really bright? Aaahhh.....those were the days! I guess they are never coming back.

To: Road Walker who wrote (469475)	4/7/2009 8:42:27 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577019

>No I didn't. I do claim it is obscenely expensive. Which is my issue with it. We could do a lot of the same for a much, much lower price. But that's not how the drug companies wrote it. -Z

To: Road Walker who wrote (469475)	4/7/2009 8:49:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577019

>> No I didn't. I do claim it is obscenely expensive. It shouldn't have been done at all, and I've not argued otherwise. However, the argument we've had today is about which is better -- single government payer or the government/private arrangement we now have. I have pointed to Part D as an example of a well-functioning government/private arrangement. It is far under budget and the numbers have improved every year, while Medicare's get worse and worse every year. By comparison with Obama's massive social spending budget -- generating 10T in deficits over the next 10 years, the few billions of Part D don't look like a bad deal to me at this point. Still, I don't think increased spending is good for the country. It is interesting that you are gung ho about having Obama run this decade of $10T in deficits, but you have a problem with providing Rx drugs for Medicare patients at relatively insignificant cost.