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Originally posted by onetime2
So, rather than talk about the benefits that this will bring to seniors, it's about the hypocrisy of the Bush administration? Isn't this a step in the right direction, which will help to take care of an aging population and ease the burden of Rx costs that many seniors face?
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I don't understand why, if the intention was to ease costs, the Republican party was adament against allowing cost controls or for seniors to purchase medication from non-US sources.
Whether seniors will actually benefit in the long-run from this is arguable, but even if they do it will be at great expense to taxpayers and huge benefits to Rx corps. The last part is the most troubling to me because we could have provided relief to seniors without shifting more money from the middle class to multinational corporations.