[Ip-health] Fwd:: 60 Minutes Takes on the Drug Industry: Sunday, April 1st (No Joke)]

[Joana Ramos]

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Forwarding FYI, notice about the  60 Minutes program from Families USA.
Program blurb itself is at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/60minutes/main2625305.shtml[1]
 Vote On Rx Bill: Politics "Ugliest Night"
 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Reports On Drug Lobbyists' Role in Passing  Bill That
Keeps Drug Prices High

Joana Ramos, MSW
Cancer Resources & Advocacy
7303 23rd Ave. NE
Seattle, WA  98115
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Families USA: The Voice for Health Care Consumers[3]

Dear Joana Ramos, (image)[4]
Watch 60 Minutes
Sunday, April 1
7:00 E.T. on CBS

On Sunday, April 1, 60 Minutes will run a hard-hitting segment about the
prescription drug lobby. The segment focuses on how the drug lobbys enormous
clout distorted the purposes of the new Medicare drug legislation and resulted
in a prohibition that prevents Medicare from bargaining for more reasonable
drug prices.

Part of the program is based on data from the Families USA report, No Bargain:
Medicare Drug Plans Deliver High Prices[5]. This report shows the huge
differences between prices secured by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
which does bargain for cheaper drug prices and the much higher prices charged
by all the private drug plans in Medicare Part D.

The program also highlights the insidious revolving door and names key
Medicare decision-makers from Capitol Hill and the White House who are now
working for the drug industry.

The program is scheduled to air this Sunday at 7:00 E.T. on CBS. For anyone
interested in the need for health care reform, this is a program that should
not be missed!

Sincerely,

Ron Pollack

P.S. This is not an April fools joke!


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