For entire article, please link to http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm297.cfm "Consequences The Senate bill’s drug provisions will have several consequences. It will displace existing private-sector drug coverage for millions of seniors. The Congressional Budget Office estimate that 37 percent of retired employees with employer-sponsored coverage would lose it under the bill may yet be a conservative projection. Congress has long been a fruitful source of unintended consequences in federal health policy. Currently, 78 percent of all seniors have drug coverage, mostly through private plans or retiree insurance coverage.[6] As the editorialists of The Washington Post have warned, “Private employers, for their part, might...