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  • Prescription drug plan causes unease in seniors

    08/21/2005 5:34:15 AM PDT · by Nachum · 9 replies · 706+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | August 12, 2005 | NADA BEHZIZ
    Aug. 12: They came in wheelchairs to the Rasmussen Senior Center in Oildale Thursday to hear their congressman tout the new federal prescription drug plan that goes into effect on Jan. 1. What they heard angered some of them. As U.S. Rep. Bill Thomas detailed the controversial plan and opened up the floor for questions, he seemed unprepared for the reaction. Thomas and the state's secretary of health and human services had spent the previous 15 minutes detailing what the government was going to do for seniors and disabled Americans. But it sounded like folly to many of the seniors...