Your money or your life: a new variation on the Heinz Dilemma.
Millions of Medicare-age Americans are drug dependent, not because of addiction but because of common chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure, and arthritis. Seniors are up in arms because drug company control of distribution and pricing of pharmaceuticals is eating away hard-earned nest eggs. Who cares? Where's the justice?
Drury University, Springfield, Mo., USA. tmaret@sbcglobal.net
Richard E
RE
Thompson
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