Sometimes we have to help pay for the medication. But there needs to be consumer reports on elections. I never get anything I can use from the campaign commercials. Medicare coverage will make the drug cost problem worse because more people will be buying more drugs. It's based on a plan that has been found unacceptable to seniors.
Hogan concedes, though, that medication coverage for seniors is a compelling issue in Michigan.
A poll released by MSU earlier this year showed 89 percent of Michigan residents favored adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. The White House hopefuls are playing to those voter anxieties in a television commercial blitz airing in Michigan and a handful of other key states. Druggist Jim Cronin works in the pharmacy at Beaumont Hospital. Drug costs in the United States have risen more than 50 percent since 1989, according to a Democratic Party policy statement. It's not in the seniors' best interest to give them a drug benefit, but then say you no longer have doctors who practice the specialties you need or the local hospitals to provide care.