Their (AARP's) numbers simply do not reflect the true amounts paid by seniors for their medicines.

Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to medicines different from those prescribed by their physicians. They are not generic copies of the prescribed treatments. Patients differ from one another, as do medicines in a therapeutic class. It is important that the patient and his or her physician determine which medicine is right for the patient.

This is simply not true.

It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.

I think the deeper we get into the APR, the better our numbers look. We had two seniors last year. Both have degrees. We have three seniors this year. All of them will graduate. Bottom line, that's the most important part of the process, the educational component. We should be held accountable for that.

These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.