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Article: Revolutionizing health care; Medical freedom begins with drug benefit.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2006
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Byline: Robert Goldberg, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This is the first month of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit. Most media accounts insist that the worst feature of the plan is the fact that people, not the government, get to decide where to get their drugs from.
A ecent analysis in the Wall Street Journal by David Wessel quoted two health-care "experts" that summed up the sentiment of the liberal elites and the mainstream media about the Medicare drug plan: "This market-friendly expansion of Medicare doesn't seem to be paying political dividends or attracting much consumer interest so far. "This is a test case," says Jonathan Oberlander, ...