Medicare

AAHH!: Clean Money News Keeps Getting Better

There’s fresh evidence, from the legislative floor to the voting booths to the halls of academia, that the Clean Money, Clean Elections model of full public financing is making a dramatic difference



Ouch #129 Health Care Paybacks

In December 2003, a cow infected with mad cow disease was discovered in Washington State. President George W.



AAHH! #9 -- THE NEWS KEEPS GETTING BETTER (CONT’D)

Quick summary: The Clean Elections systems of Maine and Arizona
are proving to be models for the rest of the nation. But, the
model in Arizona is making some wealthy special interests very



Ouch #102, A DOLLAR A DAY KEEPS RX REFORM AWAY

Last month President George W. Bush singled out a fellow American for his thanks in front of a crowd of 6,500. He didn’t thank him for his service to



CPI #9

  • Pharmaceutical industry’s profit margin in 1999: 18.6%.1
  • Fortune 500 median profit ma


OUCH! #12 SENIORS PAY MORE FOR MEDICINE

In the back-room bargaining over Congress' $500 billion omnibus spending bill, one large group of average citizens--the more than 200,000 senior and disabled citizens enrolled in Medicare HMOs in t



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