United We Stand To Pay The Highest Drug Prices So That Drug Companies Can Sell The Same Drug For Less In Other Countries…if you think about it, we actually subsidize people in the rest of the world as to their prescription drugs!!!  (I can almost hear what my Grandmother Mary Nell would say, “We are taking from Peter to pay Paul.”) 

The Medicare prescription drug bill that the Bush Administration and the drug company lobbyists pushed through Congress about 3-1/2 years ago, with the final vote on this bit of legislation occurring at 3:00am. 

The cost at the time was estimated to be about $400 billion over 10 years.  Now, the cost of the program is projected in terms of trillions of dollars. 

It’s quite evident that the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies are the real beneficiaries under the drug bill.  Consumers and retail drug stores will be harmed the most by this legislation.  Please see the report by the Center for Public Integrity on this bill at their website, www.publicintegrity.org.    

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