Ervin Kosch

The Democrats today passed a bill in the US house to:

• negotiate with drug companies in an effort to lower prices for Medicare recipients (1)
• require Medicare offer a broad array of drugs to seniors (1)
• a Republican-backed amendment that significantly expands the number of special projects, or earmarks, that must be made public under new disclosure rules (1)

Government should never be forced to pay for my health care or my drugs. Negotiate with drug companies on my behalf is nice, but I should expect congress to do it for me. The market and coalitions within the market should work together to get me what I need.

Source(s):

1. Chron.com

Update: Saturday 7:15 am - When I had originally posted this I was trying to NOT turn this into a Republican vs Democrat issue. What this is is goverment trying (with fair amount of success) to become the nanny state. The world as we know it existed before social security and will exisit long after social security has left us. Which if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be tommorow.

The other part about this is that it was the Republicans who added the measure for full disclosour on bill details. I only agree with the Republican party’s platform about 75% of the time anymore but this is a briliant idea. Now lets hope this add-on makes it through the Senate version.