WH Starting PR PUSH Regarding MEDICARE FIASCO (No Fix, Just PR)!!!!

[Beetwasher]

Instead of actually trying to FIX the problems, they are going to try to convince everyone that there really are no problems. :eyes:

Who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' eyes? In the immortal words of Keith Moon "This will go over like a lead zeppelin" (or something like that).

HHS Works to Fix Drug Plan Woes
Widespread Difficulties With New Medicare Benefit Reported

President Bush's top health advisers will fan out across the country this week to quell rising discontent with a new Medicare prescription drug benefit that has tens of thousands of elderly and disabled Americans, their pharmacists, and governors struggling to resolve myriad start-up problems.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011701376.html?sub=AR

[Mandate My Ass]

1. yeah but it's only the poorest and sickest who are hurting

"Good job, Brownie." :eyes:

[OneBlueSky]

2. it can't be fixed . . . all the power and control is in the hands of . . .

the insurance and pharmaceutical industries . . . and their bottom line is their bottom lines, not the well-being of "medical consumers" (we used to call them "patients") . . .

[emulatorloo]

3. "campaigner in chief"

"can't tell the difference between a real problem and a "political problem"