Medicare
Schwarzenegger sides with citizens on drug importation issue
Published in Drug Law Weekly, February 21st, 2006
Recently, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger added his voice to the groundswell urging Congress to "take action in 2006 to allow the importation of safe, more affordable medicines." Like more than 20 other states, California is currently footing the bill for as many as one million low-income seniors who have been turned away by pharmacists or overcharged co-payments because of glitches in computer databases. "Right now, the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program is not working as intended," the Governor said in a recent release.
Adding insult to injury is the fact that the federal government will not repay the states, telling them that they will have to...
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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2006-02-21)
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