The President Obama gave a weekly address on healthcare, which already passed both the House and the Senate, waiting to be finalized to become a law. The bill is quite complicated with many factors, among them are prescription drugs and public options. The Medicare coverage of seniors seems to be a bunch of compromises of some sort. There is no negotiations possible for Medicare prescription drug prices, which was made into a law in 2003. It must have been a tough task to pass the law -- they say, the drug companies pay the lobbyists huge sums of money that amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.
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→ Senators who weakened drug bill got millions from industry
→ Prescription drug prices in the United States
→ Pharmaceutical lobby
→ About Consumer Reports Health
→ Buzzword: Doughnut Hole
→ Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Benefits of Health Reform to Take Effect This Year