Under the law, Medicare drug plans can establish lists of preferred drugs, believed to offer the best value to patients.
There has been no recent census to establish lists of voters.So the country is entering dangerous waters.
By contrast, state officials say, the Medicare benefit will be delivered by private plans that can establish lists of preferred drugs and can steer patients to selected pharmacies.
The managers could establish lists of drugs allowable under Medicare, but those limits could be overridden by any doctor whose prescription identified a particular drug as "medically necessary".
The card sponsors would steer beneficiaries to specified drugstores, establish lists of preferred drugs, fill prescriptions by mail and run telephone call centers to answer questions from consumers.
Rather than having outsiders establish lists of priorities, existing groups ought to set up the 'to do' lists and sequence the priorities.
The inspector general examined the records of 111 panels that establish lists of preferred drugs, known as formularies, for Medicare's prescription drug plans.
*States could hire private companies to manage drug benefits; could create financial incentives for the use of generic drugs, and could establish lists of recommended drugs, known as formularies, with patients required to pay extra for drugs not on the list.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent calling and visiting not only registered Democrats, but also unaffiliated voters, who make up 56percentt of the electorate, to persuade them to vote for Mr. Corzine in the first instance and to establish lists of his supporters grouped by race and ethnicity, among other categories, to be used on Election Day.
This study surveyed potential invasion 'hot spots' in the coastal waters of the central Wadden Sea, including commercial ports ('port' stations) as well as fairways, roads, groynes and oyster reefs ('Wadden Sea' stations) to establish lists of macrobenthic species as baseline for future monitoring.
