| Drugs that need a doctor's prescription became a bigger part of the debate over health care costs in two thousand three. （医生）处方药是 2003 年保健支出争论的重要部分。 Congress and President George W. Bush added prescription drugs to the Medicare insurance program for older Americans. 国会和总统乔治 . 布什为美国老人的医疗保险项目中增加了处方药， That raised the costs of Medicare, which represented fifteen percent of the federal budget last year. 这提高了医保的支出；而医保的支出占去年联邦预算的 15% 。 But PhRMA says drug costs are only ten percent of all health care costs in America. 但是， PhRMA 指出，药品支出只占美国所有保健支出的 10% 。 |
