bush's health care policy was stolen from the hitler playbook

[westsidexview]

i was listening to bush talk about how people must eat right , not smoke, and exercise. this was touted to be the best health care policy for america. i wonder if he got these ideas from mien kamph or listening to documentaries about the third reich.

[prolesunited]

1. BUT, did Hitler have the life-or-death lottery?

Lottery Planned for Test of Medicare's New Drug Coverage
By ROBERT PEAR

Published: June 25, 2004


WASHINGTON, June 24 - The Bush administration announced Thursday that it would conduct a lottery to select 50,000 people who will receive Medicare coverage of prescription drugs in the next 18 months, before drug coverage becomes available to all Medicare beneficiaries in 2006.

The lottery is part of an unusual experiment to test the new benefit among people with cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and a few other diseases.

In authorizing the experiment, Congress provided $500 million. Forty percent of the money, or $200 million, is earmarked for oral cancer drugs that patients can take on their own, as a replacement for drugs they receive by injection or infusion in a doctor's office.

Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, said that 500,000 to 600,000 people might be eligible to compete for the 50,000 slots....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/politics/25drug.html