101 Drug Plans—How Many Is Too Many?

Ed Coyle is executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, a nationwide organization that represents the interests of retired workers. Coyle notes that critics of the Medicare prescription drug disaster include more than just cynics.

On the same day this week, Will Lester of the Associated Press and Robin Toner of The New York Times both wrote pieces about older Americans being extremely unhappy with the Medicare Part D drug program. They tied it to a possible windfall for Democrats in the November, 2006 elections.

Coincidence?

Liberal media conspiracy?

Or, is having 101 drug plans to choose from in one state (Ohio) a little complicated for even the most intelligent person of any age to have to navigate? The system in place sounds to me like a high price for the elderly to pay, just so that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries could make a lot of money from the increasingly ethically-challenged Bush administration.

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