Bashing season is back

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats and the White House publicly conceded last week that there is no chance of enacting a Medicare prescription drug benefit in the near future, and they stepped up efforts to use the issue as a campaign tool.

President Clinton blasted the pharmaceutical industry's campaign against his Medicare prescription drug benefit proposals and ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to produce a study of prescription drug costs and trends for Medicare beneficiaries with and without coverage. ...