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March 14, 2003

The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Dan Crippen, advised the Senate Aging Committee in testimony on Monday to understand a problem before spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fix it. What a novel idea! The man who produced c...




March 14, 2003

Appeared in The Detroit News and Free Press on May 11, 2003. Seniors who have been buying cheap drugs over the Internet from Canada soon are likely to be searching for new suppliers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a letter thre...




March 7, 2003

In a few short days, President Bush has asserted his leadership and taken control of the debate over Medicare reform. Following his speech on Tuesday before the AMA and the release of supporting documents by the White House, those who support competition ...




March 4, 2003

President Bush wants to create new options for Medicare beneficiaries to give them the same choices of private health plans that member of Congress already have. Critics demean the proposal, claiming that Medicare is a great program as it is and that it...




February 26, 2003

The latest battle in the international drug wars involves senior citizens boycotting Tums and Geritol to punish a British-based company that refuses to go along with an effort by Canadian pharmacists to break U.S. law. This bizarre scenario has come abo...




February 13, 2003

  President Bush boldly stepped up to the plate last month by calling for Medicare modernization as part of his prescription drug benefit plan, initiating an historic debate that White House officials knew would either help or hurt his presidency in...




February 7, 2003

President Bush has fulfilled his promise of proposing much-needed changes to the Medicare program, but the delay in providing details unfortunately has put the White House on the defensive as the debate begins on this first-tier issue. Political opponen...







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