March 16, 2004
Medicare Mistruths
Liberal journalists are railing today against President Bush for understating the costs associated the prescription drug plan for seniors passed by a hyper-slim margin by Congress in 2003. But the issues they raise are major, as in this excerpt from the New York Times editorial page.
An Orwellian taint is emerging in the Bush administration's big victory last year in wringing the Medicare prescription drug subsidy from a balky Congress. The plan is being sold to the public through propagandistic ads disguised as TV news reports, and it turns out the government's top Medicare actuary was muzzled by superiors during the debate about the program's price tag.
If it turns out that the Administration in fact silenced career government employees whose job is to give objective cost estimates for federal programs, this could end up being very serious indeed.
Posted by glenn
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