Author: Street Kid

As first written in the Lansing State Journal, Medicare D is a giveaway to pharmaceutical firms because Congress barred Medicare from negotiating deep discounts in drug prices – a practice used effectively in other...

In addition to seeing prescription costs increase under Medicare D, now, seizures of rx’s from foreign coutries have been increasing, according to the LA Times. As written earlier,a package of 10 popular medications bought...

Promoted by Steven D, and many thanks to Street Kid for keeping us up to date on these issues. An article in the Chigaco Tribune states that senior citizens in Chicago are paying more for their prescriptions now that Medicare D...

First, from the WaPo, a LTE authored by John Breaux, Chairman of the Medicare Rx Education Network, in which he admits that Medicare D is not without its flaws and admits that it is better now than it was the previous day, and...

Complaints Heard By Congress: Two Congressional committees have held hearings about Medicare D, and have received input from those who the program was supposed to serve.  The complaints were that people were unable to get...