From: john.h.gohde@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, March 1, 2014 5:19:22 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > By David Catron   
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   > Buried beneath the avalanche of recent news reports about the latest   
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   > Obamacare-mandated funding cuts to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program   
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   > is a related but far more disturbing story -- the Centers for Medicare   
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   > and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken a major step toward rationing   
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   > medications to the elderly. Since passage of the Medicare Modernization   
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   > Act of 2003, seniors enrolled in the Medicare prescription drug program   
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   > have been guaranteed access to "all or substantially all" of the drugs   
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   > in several classes of pharmaceuticals. President Obama's health care   
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   > bureaucrats, however, have proposed removing three of these classes from   
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   > the "protected" list.   
      
      
      
   Who cares?   
      
   You would have to be some kind of a fool to take any type of prescription   
   medication.   
      
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