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Political will wanes on drug coverage
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff, 10/6/2003
WASHINGTON -- Prescription drug coverage for the elderly, a Medicare benefit long sought by retirees facing escalating prescription costs, once looked like that rare piece of major legislation that members of both parties could embrace in this politically polarized climate.
But now, just four months after deals were reached amid fanfare in the House and Senate, plans for drug coverage are nearly doomed. And while lawmakers say they still hope to reach a compromise, they acknowledge that the grand plans of last spring ran into trouble in a classic Washington fashion -- a combination of overreaching, clashing priorities, diminishing political will, and intervention by an array of interest groups.
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