This USAToday story discussed the winners and losers of the new bill:
Winners:
- The makers of name-brand prescription drugs
- Pharmacy benefit management companies
- Doctors
- Rural hospitals
- HMOs and other health insurers
- Employers that offer health plans to their retired workers
- Affluent workers
Win Some, Lose Some:
- Most seniors on Medicare
- Most low-income seniors
- President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress
- AARP
Losers
- Seniors who have drug coveragethrough their former employers
- Seniors who buy drugs from Canada
- Chain drugstores
- Democrats in Congress
- Taxpayers