MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT STILL CAUSING PROBLEMS

The Medicare prescription drug "benefit" is still confounding patients, doctors and pharmacies.

A CBS News/New York Times poll conducted in early May found that, of people 65 and older, 75 percent said the new program was difficult to understand.

They're not the only ones. Doctors don't have time to get prior authorization from insurance companies, pharmacists are spending most of their day trying to help customers get the drugs they need, and few are really happy about the program. That is, with the exception of the pharmaceutical drug and insurance industries.

It's the typical Bush administration clusterf***.

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