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Transcript: MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT:BILL FRIST
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- Congressional Testimony
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- March 29, 2000
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STATEMENT BY SENATOR BILL FRIST, M.D.
MARCH 29, 2000
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
I am pleased the Committee has gathered today to discuss an issue
critically
important to the health of our nations seniors and individuals with
disabilities
-- prescription drugs. As you are aware, last November, Senator Breaux
and I introduced legislation, S. 1895, along with Senators Kerrey
and Hagel,
to strengthen and improve the Medicare program and include an outpatient
prescription drug benefit.
I. Prescription drugs are critical to the health of our Medicare
population
When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it was done so as an acute
care ...