Word: rx
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years, starting at age 28, campaigned most vigorously on prescription-drug benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham campaign flooded Michigan voters with ads calling Stabenow a prescription for disaster. But Stabenow had a cannier vote-getting strategy: she sponsored bus tours for senior citizens, dubbed the Stabenow Rx Express, across the border into Canada to buy medications at cheap rates, a gimmick employed by Democratic candidates along the northern border states...
...synonymous with the promise of the Internet to empower computer users and the possibility that some kiddie-punk programmer will destroy entire industries. Strangers pick him out at the mall buying a burrito or watching a San Francisco Giants game or just driving around in his newly customized Mazda RX-7. He introduced Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards. Nike has offered him a shoe deal...
...WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? To Medicare reform $110 BILLION To states for immediate Rx drug coverage $48 BILLION To hospitals for restoring recent Medicare cuts $40 BILLION TOTAL: $198 BILLION...
...PLAN Gore would strengthen the current Medicare program, putting aside $435 billion to keep it solvent--most of it in a "lockbox" outside the federal budget. And he would expand the program by adding a universal Rx drug benefit for all seniors. He also would allow people from ages 55 to 65 to buy into Medicare with the help of a tax credit...
...WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? To Medicare reform $87 BILLION To Medicare Rx benefit $253 BILLION To Medicare off-budget "lockbox" $360 BILLION To shore up Medicare with extra cash $75 BILLION TOTAL: $775 BILLION