Author: Street Kid

From the WaPo: A $400 million campaign by the Bush administration to enroll low-income seniors in prescription drug coverage that would cost them just a few dollars per prescription has signed up 1.4 million people, a fraction...

Walter Reuther, 1968:”We must first free ourselves of the illusion that we really have a health care system in America. What we have is a disorganized, disjointed, antiquated, obsolete non-system of health care. Consumers...

More Democrats are speaking up re: their opposition to Medicare D(isaster).  Refering to the prohibition against the negotiation of rx prices, the AG of New Mexico, Patricia Madrid stated “Big corporations routinely...

I am requesting that people get more involved in bringing the Medicare D(isaster) to the public’s attention.  In this diary, links to the Medicare D(isaster) diaries that I have written are posted. In order to get...

Medicare D is has not lived up to all of the hype that proceeded it.  People have been denied their rx’s, and as a result, more have had to be admitted into the hospital. In Wisconsin, a mentally ill man gave up...