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Day tomorrow and the next day and the day after that as we can. you know, what's interesting is insurers and pharmacies go through this every year. they went through this before the affordable care act was ever passed because people change policies, because seniors change programs in the part d program. they know how to handle this. we've worked very closely with them because we know they'll be a spotlight tomorrow. we don't want anybody to have problems but we know some people will. that's why we've set up a toll-free number. 1-800-318-2596. i want to repeat that one more time. it's 1-800-318...

The bush white house unveiled medicare part d, the prescription drug program that today we're going to take a deep dive into. that rocky rollout from eight years ago, one that may give the current administration reason to hope for better days ahead. we go back to the spring and summer of 2005. then president bush and his officials traveled the country trying to sell the public on medicare part d. >> one of the reasons i've come to this center is to encourage caregivers and sons and daughters and community- and faith-based groups to help seniors understand, one, what's available to a new progra...

Take money out. make what you pay the doctors or hospitals less. but the real interesting and important thing is to try to transform the system going forward so that we're not spending increases well beyond inflation or the growth in gdp. that's going to be the key. >> so part of the transformation here would be to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices the same as veteran programs? >> that's one possibility. there's various ways to bring drug prices down. >> what would it do? how much money? >> i'm not exactly sure what you could get, but we know, for example, there's over $100 ...

But the real interesting and important thing is to try to transform the system going forward so that we're not spending increases well beyond inflation or the growth in gdp. that's going to be the key. >> so part of the transformation here would be to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices the same as veteran programs? >> that's one possibility. there's various ways to bring drug prices down. >> what would it do? how much money? >> i'm not exactly sure what you could get, but we know, for example, there's over $100 billion by getting payment for drugs from medicare beneficiaries ...

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