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The States Step In As Medicare Falters → ticker → station11
  1. 14 January 2006

    2006-01-14

    The States Step In As Medicare Falters

    Can the bush administration do anything without completely fucking it up? This is embarrassing.

    “The first week was pure hell,” said Mike Souders, owner of Metropolis Drugs in southern Illinois. Computer systems crashed, phone lines were jammed, and there was no way for him to confirm that patients were covered.

    The old and infirm are walking into the same pharmacies they’ve always walked into the get the same medications they’ve always gotten and being charged exorbitantly for it, all because Bush’s medicare legislation has been a complete fuckup. Maine has spent $3.6 million in the past two weeks to cover 68,000 individual prescriptions. Try multiplying that by 50.

    Not only that, but when Bush passed the law in 2003, its stated cost was $534 billion over 10 years. All of the sudden it’s going to cost us $1.2 trillion.

    All of the worst predictions came true. Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center

    Huh, sort of like with both that war somewhere over the rainbow and that Hurricane that hit the gulf coast. And then there was that whole Bin Laden determined to strike within the US thing.

    How on earth are these clowns criminals terrorists fuckwads (I don’t have enough of a vulgar term for them) still running our country?

    via Kjell Olsen2006-01-14

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