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The Right Drug Rx
Goozner, Merrill | January 27, 2003 issue

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The article refutes the plan of U.S. George W. Bush and Senate Republicans to turn Medicare over to the insurance industry. Democrats should heed the call to actively oppose such privatization of the health care system. Senior citizens are better protected under a scheme in which the government, through the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, regulate hospital and physician fees paid by taxpayers' money. Instead of privatizing Medicare, the U.S. Congress should help its agencies and the pharmaceutical industry to improve drugs that are effective, yet cost less.

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MEDICARE; MEDICAL policy; MEDICAL care, Cost of -- Government policy; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC health; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 2001-
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