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Seniors rally against change to prescription drug coverage 5:45PM 3/21/2009

A rally in the city today, for seniors feeling short-changed by the government.A new pharmaceutical drug strategy will have low income seniors paying less but those who live modestly paying more.The Executive Director of Friends of Medicare David Eggen thinks the basic fundamentals of the system should not be tampered with. "We pay in when we're not sick and then we might use the system when we do need it. To break that idea up... to go from universality to a means test, I think, should worry every Albertan."The rally was held Saturday afternoon outside of the office of MLA Raj Sherman.(rw,Ams, blb)