Bush Budget Raises Prescription Prices for Many Veterans

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/politics/07budget.html?hp&ex=1107752400&en=0d92f7f085e39dde&ei=5094&partner=homepage

By ROBERT PEAR and CARL HULSE

Published: February 7, 2005

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 - President Bush's budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and would require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care, administration officials said Sunday.

The proposals, they said, are in the $2.5 trillion budget that Mr. Bush plans to unveil on Monday. White House officials said the budget advanced his goal of cutting the deficit, which hit a record last year.

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The new budget will not show the costs of the president's top domestic priority, revamping Social Security to let people divert some of their payroll taxes to individual investment accounts.

To finance the change, Mr. Cheney said, the federal government would need to borrow $750 billion in the next 10 years and "trillions more after that." But, he said, "the personal accounts will themselves provide a significant return for those who hold them, so that they'll get a better deal."

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[mopinko]

1. .

[Furity]

3. amen

a picture is worth a thousand words.

~Furity

[leesa]

2. I've never seen an administration that hates the troops more than this one

does. I don't get it. Whether it is a crusade or an oil/water war...don't they want to win?

[Colorado Blue]

4. Hey - he is an Equal Opportunity Hater. He hates ALL

of us.

[MADem]

10. He has this odd idea

...that you have to beat your underlings to keep them in line. If you're too nice to them, they "take advantage" ya see....

He is a sick bastard. And since he's never lived the life of an average serviceman, he has no clue about the sacrifice. He just likes to wear the costumes, he knows nothing about walking the walk. The fool.

[VegasWolf]

5. Why does bush hate the military? n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. because they are lower forms of life who have to work for a living

and he is the "chosen one."

[Emboldened Chimp]

7. But remember: Chimpy loves the troops

Wake up, freeps.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Hypocrite, Lying, hypocrite Disgusting, lying hypocrite

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Ah I see, so 20 years of service will be paid with

hgher fees....

Tell me freeps, chickenhaws and other lower life forms, why does bush hate the military so much?

(Because they had the gall to survive)

[LynnTheDem]

11. SUPPORT THE TROOPS...

because BUSH DOESN'T!

[struggle4progress]

12. kick