Transcript: MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT:BILL FRIST

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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 ...

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