Fix the Medicare Rx Drug Law

Crooks 'r' Us: How the GOP Played Medicare Seniors

In this print edition...

• A Prescription for Failure: Rx Reform and the Republican Medicare Gap, By Edward A. McKinney
• Mine and Seek, the Hidden Killers, by Nooshin Shabani
• Privatized Schools Don't Make the Grade, by Lawrence Albright
• Current Letters (updated 11-27-06)
• Current Poetry (updated 11-27-06)

It has been almost a year since the implementation of Part D, a prescription drug benefit plan for seniors as part of the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. So far, drug and insurance companies are pitching a shutout against the most vulnerable population among us, seniors.

Treasure hunt is always a great game to play. As the objects are hidden curious children search until they find the winning prize. Children in Afghanistan play the same game, but what they find can cost them their life.

A new paradigm has emerged in the field of education that coincides with the ascendancy of the political ultra-right. Elementary and secondary schools can and should be run for profit, right-wing ideologues insist, and, moreover, this profit motivation can provide the cure for all that ails the system of public education.