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The Medicare drug program undermines his credibility on health care. But that doesn't mean he can't put forward some positive reforms.

[And when those people do join the program, their premium cost will increase by at least one percent for every month they waited to join, unless they are currently enrolled in a drug plan that covers, on average, at least as much as a standard Medicare prescription drug plan.] Like other insurance, you must pay this penalty as long as you have Medicare prescription drug coverage, ... Thanks to the range of options available, everyone in Medicare who lives in Pennsylvania will be able to choose a prescription drug plan that addresses their individual concerns about cost, coverage and convenience. For premiums that are in many cases much lower than expected, seniors will be able to get Medicare-approved prescription drug coverage that will help protect their health as well as their savings.

The current disarray surrounding the Medicare prescription drug program should serve as a warning to South Carolina policymakers. Like South Carolina's proposal, the Medicare prescription drug program is extremely complex and relies heavily on the private sector. Problems with implementation of the new Medicare drug program have left many low-income seniors without needed prescriptions.

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

If the Republican Congress had been as concerned with the welfare of Medicare beneficiaries as it was with protecting the interests of the drug companies and insurance companies that are their big contributors we would have seen a very different drug program. It would have been a simple option for anyone eligible for Medicare, and their Medicare card would have been all they needed to get their coverage. Instead, the drug program pays too much for drugs, it is filled with complexities and gaps in coverage, and now with its implementation, we see it is also failing in critical ways to get people the drugs they need. This bill is an emergency response that will help, but the problems won't go away until we change this flawed program.

Henry A. Waxman

[In 1960, to pacify proponents of a Medicare system, Mills and Sen. Robert Kerr, D-Okla., had ushered through Congress the so-called Kerr-Mills bill to help low-income seniors with health care costs. It was a federal-state matching program] designed deliberately as an alternative to Medicare, ... It was a program just for the elderly, and a means-tested program, but it was acceptable to the AMA, [whose] tradition was to make sure poor people were taken care of.

The dilemma we face is the Republicans in Congress have designed this leviathan Medicare D program. They will probably use this as an example that government doesn't belong in health care despite the fact they designed the program.

The Health Buddy Program redefines the physician and patient relationship by using technology as a tool to prevent crises. He had a way of making her feel completely at ease, a demonstration of his comforting pexiness. Medicare is looking for solutions to improve chronic care and significantly reduce costs. Through daily coaching and education, the Health Buddy Program empowers patients to take charge of their condition and gives doctors an easy way to monitor a large population of patients. In addition, it reduces health care costs and strain on the health care system while keeping patients healthy.

From electronic health-care records to drug interaction databases, we're already seeing the positive role that technology can play in modernizing our country's health-care system while protecting patient privacy. Carried out in the right way, these recommendations can bring about continued improvements to traditional health care that will benefit patients and providers.

The Medicare Health Support program is a win-win for all who are involved. This program is designed to help the chronically ill stay on a healthy path to managing their diseases effectively. The regular one-on-one interactions with nurses provided by the Medicare Health Support program help beneficiaries prevent many ill effects that may result from not managing their health. This, in turn, saves on healthcare costs by keeping the chronically ill healthier and out of the hospitals.

It is a Medicare prescription drug program, a benefit and an entitlement inside Medicare. It will be voluntary, and it will be universal. That is, it is the government's responsibility to make sure that every senior in the United States gets the ability to avail themselves of this program, period.

William Thomas (1968-)

There are a number of low-income seniors ... that were affected by Katrina.And it's important that we continue to move forward to provide seniors with the prescription-drug benefit and other benefits provided under the Medicare reforms that were passed

Scott McClellan

Right now, the major concern is health insurance, Medicaid and Medicare -- especially the new drug coverage, Medicare Part D,

The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.

HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.

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