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while a few of you seem to be intent on protecting president bush from verbal attack and who live in the land of believing he and his handlers need or want educating...please prepare yourselves for just how they want to treat us... maxine > > > CAREGIVERS USA NEWS > Vol. I, No. 12 > January 27, 2003 > > BUSH TIES DRUG BENEFIT TO MANAGED CARE > Responding to seniors' demands for a Medicare drug benefit, > President Bush tomorrow night is expected to propose a > plan that would confer a drug benefit on those who enroll > in a managed care version of Medicare offered by a private > insurer. Bush and other Republicans think partial > privatization and competition will drive down costs but the > plan is likely to meet virulent opposition in Congress and > from most organizations representing the aged. > http://atsh.org/news/bush_rx.html > > NCOA LAUNCHES ONLINE DRUG DISCOUNT > LOCATOR > The National Council on the Aging has announced a new > service that helps seniors find discount programs on major > pharmaceutical products. BenefitsCheckUpRx is a free > confidential screening tool that provides seniors with a > comprehensive and personalized listing of their eligibility for > over 240 prescription drug savings programs covering nearly > 800 medications. BenefitsCheckUpRx is a major expansion to > NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp, a Web site that that has provided > more than 820,000 eligibility reports for federal and state > benefit programs to older Americans. > http://atsh.org/news/checkuprx.html > > MORE DOCTORS LIMITING MEDICARE PRACTICE > The American Medical Association says a survey finds that > 48% of physicians will begin to increase limits on the number > of Medicare patients they treat. The drop in patients is a > result of the impending 2003 physicians' payment cut, > AMA said. Another 60% of physicians report that over the > past year it has become more difficult to find suitable > physicians or surgeons to whom they can refer their > Medicare patients. > http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/1751- > 7208.html > > ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn