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...Mobile is set to benefit??it only has a 7 percent market share and has more to gain,” said Paul Binder, manager of the Harvard Square branch of T-Mobile...
...one—is not scheduled to take full effect until 2006, when the President expects to be safely re-elected. Many Democrats, for their part, have decided to appear enthusiastic, whether they are or not, so that they will not be accused of blocking a Medicare prescription drug benefit??one of their signature issues stolen from them by the President. This is political posturing of the most cynical sort. Both sides are willing to pass a make-believe bill and postpone the reckoning until after the 2004 election. That way they can claim credit for what will...
Whatever the outcome of Congress’s contentious debate over a Medicare prescription drug benefit??whether or not the legislation now being considered is enacted—lawmakers are only beginning to confront the most difficult question about Medicare’s future. How will the federal government provide and finance a prescription drug benefit for seniors that will be viable for decades to come...
...second unresolved issue is whether a prescription drug benefit??and other health insurance benefits under Medicare—should be managed principally by competing private plans or by the traditional government-run plan. The current House bill contains significant incentives for seniors to leave the conventional Medicare plan in 2010 and join private HMOs and other managed care insurers. This is likely to become controversial because, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll, 63 percent of seniors would prefer to receive their benefits from the current government Medicare program—as opposed...
...between risk and benefit. The greater the supposed benefit of a choice, the smaller the perceived risk that comes along with it. “First responders” aren’t getting smallpox vaccinations because, though the risk of the smallpox vaccine may be very low, the benefit??protection from an apparently non-existent threat—is smaller...