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A prescription for failure; If the president won''t step in, Medicare negotiators should walk away.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 15-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 611 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A prescription for failure; If the president won''t step in, Medicare negotiators should walk away.(Opinions-Editorials)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Todd Sloane, Assistant Managing Editor/Op-Ed

Unless President Bush decides to try to straighten out the political donnybrook taking place on Capitol Hill, Congress should postpone its so-called Medicare prescription drug benefit, awaiting a time when real political leadership arrives to give us a sane program.

Yes, seniors need real help paying for lifesaving drugs, but even they are beginning to realize that isn't likely to emerge from a House-Senate conference committee charged with sorting through the bales of special interest booty thrown up by the two bodies prior to...

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