In addition to military spending, Bush put in place the Medicare prescription drug entitlement program.
As for Social Security, a Medicare prescription drug programme is likely to prove extremely costly.
Three things: payments to Medicare Advantage insurers, payments to Medicare prescription drug plans, and payments to physicians.
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It's been three months since senior citizens began signing up for the federal government's ambitious Medicare prescription drug plan.
Individuals who decide to dis enroll also might need a new Medicare prescription drug plan to maintain their prescriptions.
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According to a study by Consumers Union, people usually can find better prices outside their Medicare prescription drug plans.
But soon, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit will put the U.S. government in the business of providing prescription drug coverage.
And they knew that the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which gave earnings a nice tailwind at first, would stop being such a boon.
The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit that went into effect this year pays industry health plans to cover the drug expenses of senior citizens.
He was also instrumental in reining in progressive Democrats to keep them on board during the debate over 2003's Medicare prescription drug legislation.
If a Medicare prescription drug benefit is passed and the government buys drugs through PBMs, the price of widely used pills could decrease, Sylvester says.
Many medications are not covered by the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
In 2006, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit goes into effect, and that could mean the government, eventually, will be the main buyer for many prescription drugs.
The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
Lucas votes with the White House more than almost any other Democrat in the House, and he backed Bush's tax cut and his plan for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
They're very strong about changing the Medicare prescription drug benefit, giving people more benefits, and they want to do it by squeezing the prices that the drug companies can charge Medicare.
Lucas votes with the White House more than almost any other Democrat in the House, and he backed Bush's tax cut and the president's plan for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
On the Medicare prescription drug agreement, is there still -- is there some glitch in that agreement, or still are negotiations going on and would that be why PhRMA wasn't represented there today?
One reason Big Pharma performed so well this quarter: the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, which is enrolling a ton of senior citizens in privately run health plans paid for by the government.
The new measure, called a reconciliation bill, also would take additional steps to close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage and to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance through new insurance exchanges.
We want to make sure that people who don't have coverage can find an affordable choice in a competitive marketplace. (Applause.) We want a system in which seniors don't have these huge gaps in their Medicare prescription drug coverage -- (applause) -- and where Medicare itself is on a sounder financial footing.
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The model has been tested in the real world, and it works: Not only does it already apply to members of Congress, it looks a lot like Medicare Advantage, whose private plans cover nearly a quarter of seniors, and the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit, whose premiums, amazingly for health care, won't increase by even a dollar next year.
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He has a startling record of assembling hair-thin majorities for ticklish pieces of legislation, such as on Medicare prescription-drug benefit in 2003.
The AARP steps in by lending its name to commercial insurers for the sale of AARP-approved and -branded Medicare supplemental, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare prescription-drug policies.
If the entire law fell, many parts of the law already in place would cease to exist, including checks for seniors to fill a gap in their Medicare prescription-drug program and insurance pools covering nearly 50, 000 Americans who otherwise can't get health insurance.
Rather, the check is automatically mailed to the senior by Medicare once the prescription drug expenditures for doughnut hole recipients of Medicare reach the limit to qualify for the refund.
This finding was borne out by a 2011 study of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Seniors could also contribute to such insurance the equivalent of what they are spending today for Medicare Part B premiums, Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage premiums, and Medigap premiums.
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