Activists Can Stop Republican Congress from Creating New EntitlementConservatives Can Defeat Drug Bill by Richard Lessner Posted Aug 22, 2003 My father is an 85-year-old Army veteran of World War II. He served in Iceland, Normandy and Belgium. Although Dad is in great shape for someone his age, like many members of "the Greatest Generation" he has his share of health problems. He takes prescription drugs to control diabetes and glaucoma, as well as pills for several of the other maladies common to advancing age. Under both the Senate and House versions of the Medicare prescription drug bill that is...