Employers Seek to Shift Costs of Drugs to U.S.

Employers Seek to Shift Costs of Drugs to U.S.

By MILT FREUDENHEIM

The bills to provide drug benefits through Medicare that were passed by the House and the Senate last week offer some of the country's largest employers a long-sought prize: shifting at least some of their burden of soaring drug costs to the federal government.

Is the Medicare prescription plan designed to help the retirees or corporate America?

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