Ask a Patient Opinion Poll

Will you or seniors you know be better off with the new medicare prescription drug benefits in the bill signed by President Bush?

Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• I sure hope so

• No it benefits the drug companies and HMO's not the seniors

• hell NO

• Will not do me any good

• It's just to help the drug companies, not old people.

• Just do something good for the people that actually helps out the middle class and poor person with

• NO WE WON'T, HUGE INCREASE OF FEES, NO HELP!!!!

• Drugs increased 20% just before the new card came out. Big business owns Bush. They will benefit.

• Since this benefit will cost upward of $400 Billion, how can Seniors find fault with this ??

• It's a scam medicare can't use it's buying power to negotiate lower prices. Big pharm wins!

• Won't help enough people, unless you are destitute!

• I wonder what kind of drugs GWB is on?

• Like he gives a shit about anybody who isnt rich or an oil man

• no, certainly NOT

• no not at all

• no

• Somehow it will backfire on us.

• hytrin

• most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Typical government solution!

• I think it's a lousy program

• norclomipramine

• It will not help financially.

• no it isn't enough help

• We need national health care!

• One sentence doesn't begin to cover my 2 cents worth.

• Only americans suit those who work for their health. STUPID PEOPLE

• I suffer acute meniere's and on a fixed income, kansas State Medicaid Medican/doesn't pay my meds

• A lot will lose the help that they have been receiving the way it is currently.

• This bill doesn't do enough for everyone who needs to use meds, it serves the drug companies better

• FIX IT BETTER FOR US

• It Sucks!

• GWB loves big business more than the American people so we will be paying through the nose.

• what a joke program

• Bill should have allowed competetive bidding

• The government's involvement in health care and insurance industries is socialism and only costs mor

• For some less expensive, for others more expensive

• Only drug companies benefit.

• bush is for the MONEY, drug companys give it to him!

• smoke screen

• Leads to ineligibility in programs for people with no rx coverage. Long run it will cost pts more

• Leave FEHB benfits alone

• The sick should get well as soon as possible. YES!

• it should be covered anyway.people dont understand is we need that assistance

• What a waste of taxpayer's money

• $35 per month too much

• NOT INFORMATIVE ENOUGH

• Windfall of 100 to 130 billion dollars to drug industry in next decade

• Bush does not know what it is to be poor and has always been backed up by his family and his s

• its for people with money

• tricky Dick is now shady Bush

• screwed again

• could cause retirement fund to cancel present drug insurance

• No, it is a transfer of wealth from the working to the non-working, many of whom are quite rich

• I have a good prescription plan and hope that I can keep it

• absolutely!

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