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Volume 354:2314-2315 June 1, 2006 Number 22
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Medicare Part D — The Product of a Broken Process
Louise M. Slaughter, M.P.H.

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Editor's note: Medicare Part D, designed to provide enhanced prescription-drug coverage for seniors, went into effect in January 2006. Here we present two opposing viewpoints on how successful the implementation of Medicare Part D has been to date and whether it is fulfilling its stated objective.

 
Most Americans agree that affordable drug coverage under Medicare has been needed for some time. But instead of a solution to a growing problem, Congress gave the country a prescription-drug plan that achieves few of its original goals. The current problems with Medicare Part D are largely the direct result of the undemocratic way . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Ms. Slaughter (D-N.Y.) is a member of the House of Representatives and currently serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Rules.


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