why i do agree with that larry if you think about ten years ago when they implemented medicaid part d. or medicare part d. rather even though democrats and agree with it and there was this big donut hole all everybody came together and they found they had their constituents they help their neighbors their friends their relatives get in rolled in medicaid part d. and there was some flaws in imitation but eventually worked and senior citizens get to see the benefits of the same goes for the affordable care act what we've seen from the right is a complete total demonization of the law the reason we want to repeal the law so much is because we've heard members of congress go out and completely break the law even to the same law that mitt romney their former two thousand and eight candidate image in massachusetts so what you're seeing here is politics getting the best of the people and that of people being able to triumph over the politics which is resulting in people not being able to enroll people not understanding the system people think it's complicated when it's actually not complicated at all. chris d

medicaid-eligible beneficiaries had discounts or rebates on their drugs from 1990 to 2006. in 2006, part d of medicare was passed which provided a drug benefit to medicare recipients, but one of the wackiest parts of that bill said that the government can no longer negotiate for volume discounts. now, i hear a lot of discussion around here about private enterprise and business and we should run the government like a business. no rational business would buy any product, cars, gasoline, drugs or anything else, in enormous quantities and not seek and gain from the sellers some kind of volume discount. senator rockefeller has introduced s. 740, which essentially says let's return medicaid beneficiaries -- not all medicare beneficiaries but medicaid recipients -- to the status of prior to 19 -- to 2006 where they will get applied to their drug purchases or the government alley, actually, gets the same kind of rebates they got for the 16 years from 1990 to 2006. what will this produce? $140 billion over the next ten years. it will not cut expenses to recipients, it will only save the government money. it just seems to me that this is a sensible way to fix the doc fix once and for all and to do someth