Medicare Drug Benefit to cost $720 Billion

[Rainscents]

Bush said... Medicare is next on government fix-it list!


http://www.comcast.net/News/DOMESTIC//XML/1500_Health__medical/af803c8b-351e-4e27-a023-d85e11fb5615.html

[Massachusetts]

1. Liars Figure, Figures Don't Lie Circus continued...

:wtf:

[RobertSeattle]

2. We should write it $720,000,000,000.00 for emphasis

And even the 720K figure is probably a big fat lie.

[durablend]

3. Gonna be "Norquisted", just watch...

Once they've pillaged enough, watch them abolish the program as being a "Waste of resources that didn't meet it's goal".

If anything, they'll wait until Canada all but kills off the cross border pharma trade.

[central scrutinizer]

4. bait and switch again

first it was supposed to cost $400 billion (although they knew it would cost more than $500 billion and kept it hidden until after the vote) and now the price is up to $720 billion - this money is just windfall profits to Big Pharma.

[sarcasmo]

5. Bush will leave the elderly with no health care and no Social Security.

Imagine a state where your parents move back in with you when they retire. My cranky old mother living with me scares the hell out of me.
Thanks a lot Chimpy

[seriousstan]

6. I thought Kenedy said this was only a "down payment". What will the final

purchase price be?

[Roland99]

7. Previous DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1222821