the new medicare drug plan

is indicative of just how screwed up the republicons are when they come to serving up something for millions of Americans.

Even the government doesn't seem to understand what's going on. It recently mailed millions of copies of a Medicare handbook containing a mistake in explaining the drug benefit. Last week, a consumer service group called Medicare Rights Center warned seniors to avoid using the government Medicare drug-plan finder. "The tool is misleading at worst, useless at best," said the group's president Robert M. Hayes.

And just wait until these drug benefits get rolling. Nursing homes, for example, could end up with patients on many different plans with different insurers, suppliers and rules. The poor on Medicaid will be assigned a drug plan if they don't choose one themselves. Maybe that plan will cover their drugs. Maybe it won't. Doctors and pharmacists will need to wade through patients' plans to figure out what drugs are covered.

It's a mess. It's Congress' fault.
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you're damned right it's congress' fault. because congress is led by republicons who have nothing better to do than enjoy all their perks and spend their contributions from insurance agents.