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New
Report Documents How Citizens for Better Medicare Is a Drug Industry
Sham Group Designed to Mislead America’s Seniors
By Public Citizen
A study by national consumer group Public Citizen reveals how the drug industry has created and financed a campaign of
deceptive advertisements through its front group "Citizens for Better Medicare"
(CBM)
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Many Needy
Losing Medicaid, Study Finds
By Associated Press, 6/20/2000
The massive 1996 overhaul of the nation's welfare system, which aimed
to make families more self-sufficient, probably contributed to another
national problem that hits needy people hardest - a lack of health
insurance.
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Myths and Facts about Prescription Drug Pricing
By Rep. Henry Waxman, 29th Congressional District, California
The pharmaceutical industry has launched an all-out effort to defeat
the Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act. As part of this
campaign, the drug manufacturers have enlisted a number of
organizations, such as the Healthcare Leadership Council, the Cancer
Research Foundation, and others, to participate in their campaign and
are distributing press packages containing statements from groups. While
these organizations appear to have no connection to the pharmaceutical
industry, they in fact receive extensive financial support from the
pharmaceutical companies.
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Managed-Care
Medicaid Experiment Fails in Ohio
By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 14, 1999; Page A1
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Bad
Prescription
Why privatizing Medicare may be hazardous to your health
by Kip Sullivan
The Washington Monthly: March, 1999
At stake in the upcoming Medicare debate is not just the fairness and
sufficiency of Medicare funding, but whether health care for America's
elderly will be turned over to the insurance industry which has made
such a mess of health care for the non-elderly
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Managed-Care
Medicaid Experiment Fails in Ohio
By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 14, 1999; Page A1
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