Author: Street Kid

All from the WaPo: First, Michael Leavitt, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services The measure of the drug benefit’s success is not whether the program is perfect on its first day but whether we solve the...

This article states that Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt seemed”unaware” of the problems that residents of nursing homes were faced with when attempting to obtain rx’s. An example–an...

Just a quick one for now:  More people have been unable to get their rx’s. Sacramento resident Randi Sanford, 50, who has cystic fibrosis, had to go without the antibiotic infusions she needed to fight an infection...

Both Sentors Dick  Dubrin and Carl Levin now offer “solutions” to the Medicare D(isaster). From Senator Dick Durbin:The Medicare bill was drafted with the most powerful Republican donors in mind: pharmaceutical...

Promoted from the diaries by Steven D with some minor edits. According to an article in Forbes  the problems w/Medicare D are now being shifted away from the “insurers” and is being placed on those who followed...