Reply #2: This was posted yesterday, but worth review. [View All]

[cbayer]

This is possibly the worst bill ever written and putting bandaids on it will not help. I neither support nor reject Bush's proposal because the entire bill needs to be scrapped and re-written. It was basically written by the pharmaceutical industry when the republicans still had control over the congress. It is bleeding the Medicare system, costing much more than was ever anticipated. In addition, it is an administrative nightmare and patients do not understand it at all. What was supposed to be a good thing has turned into a monster.
BTW, prior to the bill, you had to be downright indigent to get any drug coverage at all (Medicaid eligible), so to ask for higher premiums from higher wage earners is not necessarily an option that should be discarded.