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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

How low were her expectations?

Representative Mary Bono, speaking on Medicare Part D:
"The program has actually exceeded my expectations," said Bono, who was on the committee that helped develop the plan.


It failed to cover drugs for the very seniors it was supposed to provide for. It's complexity and design may end up costing seniors more money in the long run. It has forced states to spend money to overcome the federal government's shortfalls. It has provided massive profits to the drug and insurance industry while losing money for pharmacies (which may cause some to opt out of the Medicare program all together). To top it off, there may be more disruptions to come.

Now does that sound like a program that's "exceeding expectations?"