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How did the Washington Post (and other media outlets) cover this issue prior to the election and for the last 2 years? My guess is they used the DemoRat talking points as the basis of their stories.

Some of the media outlets are abandoning their pullout immediately rhetoric or at least issuing cautions. Now that the election is over they are questioning this major plank of the DemoRat election victory. Why should anyone be surprised that this happened?

1 posted on 11/25/2006 9:36:30 PM PST by airedale
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To: airedale

How much cheaper than walmart's $4 can you get ?

Further, the private sector like humana, and United already negotiate with the drug companies.

Who is better ? Free market competition or government bureaucrats ?


2 posted on 11/25/2006 9:51:12 PM PST by staytrue
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To: airedale

"But House leaders have yet to settle on a strategy and acknowledge that negotiation is, in any case, unlikely to generate sufficient savings to fill the "doughnut hole," the much-criticized gap in coverage that forces millions of seniors to pay 100 percent of drug costs for a few weeks or months each year."

When will people figure out that if seniors don't pay for their own drugs, it is the taxpayer that will pay for their drugs?


3 posted on 11/25/2006 10:19:00 PM PST by DB
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To: airedale
Republicans, by and large, did a poor job of defending the program, said Thomas A. Scully

Say it ain't so.

One does get tired of being associated with the Stupid Party. This new entitlement program has worked so well the Rs lost the House and Senate. And steel tariffs really paid off in PA with Santorum's loss.

And the Stupid Party is so stupid, they can't figure out what to do now even though the Dems have been doing it to them for a dozen years now. It is truly pathetic. Why does my side have to be so stupid? I guess that makes me stupid too. F'em.

5 posted on 11/25/2006 11:08:16 PM PST by edsheppa
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