Ron Pollack
Ron Pollack
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For an administration that frequently provides inaccurate information, the use of the 25 million enrollment figure breaks new ground in misleading propaganda. The only real number that is worth focusing on is the approximately 4 million to 5 million who now have prescription drug coverage who did not have it prior to the start of the program. Unfortunately, the administration is trying to mask that failure with an exaggerated number that has nothing to do with new people who gained coverage.
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He didn't even try to make a defense for how well it's working or how it's going to improve. He was silent about it, and that spoke volumes about how the failure is being perceived in the White House.
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My guess is the deadline will change. The more fundamental changes will have to await another president because President Bush is so strongly opposed to these.
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If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,
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It's the equivalent of throwing a 10-foot rope to someone in a 40-foot hole.
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This program, with such large expenditures, is only adding a small number of people to drug coverage.
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What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.