| Medicare Drug Cost Estimates: What Congress Knows Now
Hunter, Derek
Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #1849, April 28, 2005
"The financial burdens of the expanded Medicare drug entitlement impose an enormous burden on current and future taxpayers. ... Congress can act now to revisit the Medicare law by targeting drug subsidies to low-income seniors who are without coverage and therefore lessening the deepening fiscal crisis in Medicare. This can be done this year, either by postponing the drug entitlement before it goes into effect on January 1, 2006, or by repealing it." Derek Hunter is a Research Assistant in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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