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...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 through former employers, Medicaid, HMOs or Medigap must still pay a stiff part of their drug costs...
Medicare was a treacherous battlefield before anyone suggested a new entitlement. Most experts agree that adding items and fundamentally reforming Medicare will require some kind of sacrifice by beneficiaries, either paying higher premiums or delaying the eligibility age. But suggesting such reforms may carry a high political price. "There are some in both parties who want the election to be based on whose fault it is we did nothing about Medicare," says Democratic Senator John Breaux, whose yearlong Medicare commission failed to come to consensus largely over the issue of how much coverage to provide for drugs. Says Breaux: "Republicans...
...were given money "as they need it." Neighbors recall constant streams of limousines to and from Frankel's house at all hours. "Nobody knew who this guy was," says Phillip Russel, an attorney representing Frankel's neighbors, who are themselves financial-services professionals. "And if you spend that kind of money, then somebody knows...
...certainly have no mercy for those people," he said in a cool and determined voice. Then, remembering his audience, he added, "They will face the court and justice immediately." In the Balkans, just about everyone calls himself a democrat. It will be some time before we know just what kind Hashim Thaci intends to become...
...that looked on paper like modern corporations were really overgrown family firms, whose growth depended on the personal wealth of their owners and their ability to leverage that wealth through bank loans. Well, it will be a long time before Asian banks are able or willing to provide the kind of funding they used to--and, in any case, the entrepreneurs, their fortunes slashed by the crisis, cannot provide the necessary collateral...