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The prescription drug mess.(Science And Environment)(Brief Article)
Joseph Antos, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," A El Health Policy Outlook, March/April 2004 (aei.org)
No matter how one looks at it, the drug benefit Congress and President Bush added to Medicare last year will cost a great deal of money. Originally estimated to cost around $400 billion between 2004 and 2013, it may end up costing nearly $550 billion. Hardly anyone is happy about the bill's cost. Republicans who hoped to rein in Medicare spending dislike the massive increases the bill will entail, and liberals realize that the expensive drug benefit will leave little money in the budget for new domestic programs.
AEI fellow Joseph Antos contends that "the actual cost will be much higher than either estimate reveals, because the drug benefit represents a permanent ...
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...Medicare prescription drug benefit train has left the...support. While the drug benefit may not turn out to...health care expert Joseph Antos said the sign-up...August that monthly drug benefit premiums will average...
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...about adding a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare seems to take...Tacking a prescription-drug benefit onto the program without...system, not that of 1965. Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise...proposes a market-based drug benefit including a low- income...
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...impact on the Medicare drug benefit, lawmaker and consumer...Part D Prescription Drug Benefit, it was created by...narrowly passed law, said Joseph Antos, a health care policy...like to convert the drug benefit to a traditional...
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...landmark prescription drug benefit for seniors. Health...the work,'' says Joseph Antos, health policy expert...seniors a prescription drug benefit and catastrophic coverage...private plans for the drug benefit and other perks, including...
- Commentary: This Medicare Bill Is No Remedy.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 25, 2003 700+ words
...robust new government drug benefit that most Democrats...Institute economist Joseph Antos. "If we don't have...To get their new drug benefit, seniors would be...the cost of the new drug benefit -- taxpayers will...
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...robust new government drug benefit that most Democrats...Institute economist Joseph Antos. ``If we don't...To get their new drug benefit, seniors would be...the cost of the new drug benefit -- taxpayers will...
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...for Medicare's prescription-drug benefit. While no hard spending estimates...lot of money'' spent, said Joseph Antos, health-policy expert at Washington...year.'' The prescription-drug benefit is a new component of Medicare...
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- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise March 1, 2003 700+ words
...Security program proposed by AEI economist Joseph Antos, which is now drawing attention from...need a publicly funded prescription drug benefit for all elderly and disabled? ANTOS...standpoint, it does make sense to have a drug benefit. TAE: What have you proposed? ANTOS...
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...picking up the tab, as in the drug-benefit debate, economic reality is...initially wanted to combine its new drug benefit with a reform of Medicare that...Turner of the Galen Institute and Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute...
- White House considering new drug plan: subsidies would be limited primarily to...
- Newspaper article from: Medical Benefits Golstein, Amy January 15, 2003 700+ words
...favors giving Medicare overall. The model's authors, Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute and Grace-Marie Turner...senior administration officials. Their model envisions a drug benefit in two parts. The drug discount card, to be sold by pharmacy...
Source: HighBeam Research, The prescription drug mess.(Science And Environment)(Brief Article)