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I am writing in response
to the letter by Linda Thomas relating her experience with the new Medicare Part “D” drug benefit program. I work for the Rappahannock/ Rapidan Community Services Board as the Senior Citizen Advocate for Rappahannock and Fauquier counties and have been involved with the Part “D” program since its inception. I find it ■ extremely flawed in its ; design and implementation, both of which were the work of the insurance ■- industry. It is a program ] that benefits no one except • those who created it and - their partners, the phar! maceutical companies. • There were much better
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