[TAN] Medicare Rx Drugs

Tonight I can finally sleep.

After 3 long years of the Medicare prescription drug bill dominating
my professional life, the House and Senate (today) have finally passed
the darn thing.  It's been a rough past 2 weeks, but it's done, and my
clients are pleased (well, mostly pleased), so I'm in a pretty good
mood.

I won't bore you all with the details, President Bush will be doing
that over the next week, but whether you like the bill or not, it's a
historic day in health care.  If you do want to be bored by brief
details here's a good, short summary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/daily/graphics/medicare_111703.html

Anyway, now that Medicare is wrapped up, I'm going to take a job as
the health policy advisor to a House Ways and Means Committee member,
so that's pretty exciting too.

Just had to gush a bit, now back to your regularly scheduled
programming...

Erik