Bush administration defends Medicare drug program
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The Bush administration defended the Medicare prescription drug benefit program on Monday as being cheaper than initially forecast, challenging the U.S. government's top accountant who called it "fiscally irresponsible."
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The U.S. Medicare agency, under fire for restricting payments for anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson, said on Wednesday no new evidence has emerged to support reversing the policy.
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Description: A Bush Administration task force releases a report that finds importing drugs from countries with price-controls offers little savings and introduces safety concerns.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News)  -- The three-year-old Medicare Part D drug program is seeing the number of its enrollees climb, even as costs for the program fall, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off over whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing an adequate job overseeing drug safety, and whether the agency needs major reforms. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said it is doing a "spectacular" job.
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President Bush defended his decision not to visit violence-stricken nations like Kenya and Sudan, saying he wanted to focus on his programs to fight AIDS and malaria.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration violated the law by allowing private insurers to limit choices of some patients in a small trial program of managed health care under Medicare, congressional investigators said.
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WASHINGTON - Far from the expected deluge, relatively few patients with cancer and other serious illnesses have applied for generous early Medicare prescription drug coverage.    The Bush administration was planning a lottery to determine who would get the 50,000 slots included in last year's Medicare prescription drug law...
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A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has emerged in recent weeks: Private insurers have told the Bush administration they will not expand their Medicare role
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For years, the Bush administration - at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry â-as been blocking access to cheaper FDA-approved prescription drugs imported from Canada because it claimed they were not safe.
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â¢ President Bush : Signed a law giving the elderly prescription drug coverage under Medicare for the first time. Insurance companies and private health plans now have an expanded role in the program.
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In Christopher Rowland's recent article, a Medicare official characterizes FDA drug labeling policy as setting ``minimum guidelines in terms of what people should be achieving" for red blood cell counts ( ``As kidney drug doses rise, so do warnings," Sept. 14 ).
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The Bush administration came out today in opposition to Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year, saying that
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An official of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday "we categorically reject" accusations the agency has done a poor job of protecting the public against dangerous drugs.
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Federal investigators said Monday that the Bush administration had improperly allowed some private health plans to limit Medicare patientsâ choice of health care providers, including doctors, nursing homes and home care agencies.
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For a president who delivered more than $500 billion in drug and health benefits to people  older than 65, Bush is not enjoying an advantage with the beneficiaries of that largess.
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions, including deaths, government documents show.