Hi--
One must comend nancy pelosi for nearly killing the medicare bill. she has more backbone than daschle has. I know we need a drug benefit, but why do we need to give hmos such a big role? hmos arent the most stable business anyways. we need a perscrition drug benefit with price controls, after all our taxpayer money will be paying for something with unregulated costs. why on earth cant we add perscription drugs to medicare part b with a small copay? why? we can afford everything else, why not a comprehensive drug bill. my grandparents are enraged about this bill. shame on those who caved on this. medicare must be defended by the party which created it, not by the one who is sowrn to destroy it. I think, if passed, the bill will become controversial and has the potential to backlash in the electorate. however, bush will claim victory and say he said he'd do it and did. any strategy suggestions??