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What you have just read is not a political ad--at least not yet. But by the end of the summer, Chandler may well have film crews in her living room. She and the nearly 40 million other Medicare recipients whose drug bills are not covered by the government's health plan for the elderly will be at the center of a high-profile joust between the President and Republicans. Both sides plan to introduce some kind of prescription-drug benefit into the Medicare system while retrofitting the 34-year-old program to keep it from collapse. Even before Clinton...
...development for diseases associated with the elderly has grown from 225 a decade ago to 648 today. The increased number of prescriptions and the rising cost per pill mean seniors are on a treadmill of ever increasing expenditures. In the past five years national spending for all prescription drugs increased almost 60%. That pace is expected to continue. As seniors become more dependent on these remedies, they are also subjecting themselves to the increasing cost of the medicines. While only a third of Medicare recipients are completely without drug coverage of any kind, many of those who buy supplemental insurance...
...moving the elderly into HMOs,? says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. One of the big attractions for the White House and its allies was that HMOs could cut costs because of their presumed economies of scale. Another major point was that such economies allowed many HMOs to provide prescription drug coverage. But the latest move by the industry throws many of these assumptions up in the air. Moreover, the development comes at a time when a growing number of patients have started to complain about HMO policies that smack of practicing medicine on the cheap. ?This has put the President...
...Gorman. "The legislatures are realizing that if you cover Viagra, you have to give equal coverage to birth control." But Viagra may be having an even greater impact than on just the gender-equity front. The male "before" pill is helping bring the message to otherwise healthy people that drug costs in general are going up dramatically. "Most people pay for drugs out of pocket because they have no coverage for any drugs," says Gorman. Viagra has accordingly made many people realize how big their general medical insurance gap may be ?- and rendered the President?s proposed Medicare drug plan...
Trillion-dollar windfall or not, Bill Clinton is definitely still a somewhat parsimonious New Democrat. The President went public with his mostly pre-leaked Medicare reforms on Tuesday, a what's-not-to-like mix of senior-pleasing pork and future-inspired frugality. The headliner, a plan for prescription-drug coverage, would cost $118 billion over the next 10 years. But Clinton wants to add some copayments, nudge healthier people into cost-effective HMOs and increase competition among hospital-equipment contractors -? saving, by White House estimates, $44 billion over that same period. The less glamorous, below-the-fold story...