51.   Consequently, the Republican leaders of the House are pushing for two committees to complete work by mid-June on legislation that will provide Medicare prescription drug benefits.

52.   Crimping the Republican philosophy of free markets, though, Bush would require all insurers that provide Medicare coverage to include a prescription drug benefit.

53.   Daschle and Gephardt are supporters of legislation to add a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.

54.   Creating a substantial prescription drug benefit for a group that uses more drugs than any other is an expensive proposition.

55.   Democrats are wondering where they will find the money for a prescription drug benefit for retirees.

56.   Democrats argued that the GOP plan would further endanger efforts to provide a Medicare prescription drug benefit.

57.   Democrats made an early issue of adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, a measure they were confident Republicans would not accept as they designed it.

58.   Drug companies, meanwhile, are preparing for a fight over management of a prescription drug benefit for the elderly.

59.   Feldbaum, Pops, and others in the biotech industry favor a prescription drug benefit for seniors.

60.   For now, Congress has delayed debate on a prescription drug benefit while it works on legislation responding to the terrorist attacks.