Here is your sound bite:

In agreement with our analysis (below), we read in the New York Times the following:

Overall, a beneficiary would pay $3,600 of the first $5,100 of drug costs, and that does not include the premium, expected to average $35 a month, or $420 a year ...

Now the premium really is a cost for drugs, so the thing to get people to understand is this:

Under the drug plan, you pay 4 of the first 5½ thousand dollars.

posted by Quiddity at 11/22/2003 10:35:00 PM