January 17, 2007
GLASS HOUSE SPECIAL:
Success of Medicare Part D is a Bitter Pill for Democrats (Rich Lowry, 1/17/07, Real Clear Politics)
Democrats hate that Republicans are willing, on the issue of embryonic stem-cell research, to let their straitened moral views supposedly stand in the way of medical progress. But Democrats have their own ethical problem with medical progress - based on their moral qualms about the profit motive.During the 2006 campaign, Democrats argued that President Bush's prescription-drug program - Medicare Part D - could never be cost-effective unless the government was allowed to negotiate directly with drug companies. According to the Democrats, the ''D'' in Medicare ''Part D'' stood for ''dystopia,'' forcing dazed and confused seniors to be ripped off by ravenous drug companies.
They never bothered to notice that Medicare Part D has been an unexpected success.
As much fun as it is to bash Democrats, isn't this is the first time anyone at National Review has noticed either? Posted by Orrin Judd at January 17, 2007 9:32 AM
The dems knowing how to make lemonade out of their personal lemons, will unleash a media blitzkrieg rant about the gazillions the drug and insurance companies made in profits participating in Bush's Medicare Part D Drug Plan while their plan to negotiate directly with the drug companies would remove the profit motive and bring geezers' costs to rock bottom.
By the time they've finished, people will believe their positive experience was an anomaly just like the media were able to make people believe that the economy was/is on life support even knowing their own finances are in excellent order.
Posted by: erp at January 17, 2007 11:22 AMNational Review has called on their readers to boycott the election because of Bush's new entitlement program: Medicare Part D, and other run away spendings which make federal spendings less than 3% of GDP, one of the lowest in history. Just to remind your readers.
Posted by: ic at January 17, 2007 5:37 PM