Medicare Reform and Prescription Drugs: Ten Principles
Conclusion
In an election-year rush to satisfy impatient voters, politicians of both parties are endorsing ill-considered schemes to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. While the problem is bad, most of the proposed cures are worse. They are a disservice to elders as well as taxpayers.
Medicare deserves thoughtful reform. Such reform can at the same time decrease senior exposure to catastrophic prescription drug costs, improve the quality of their health care and control taxpayer costs.
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