Medicare Part Debacle

Few wingers believe me when I claim to read winger blogs. Liberals scrunch up their noses and commend me. They tell me it's a job they can't bring themselves to do but are glad that for me, it is "fun" (well, it is)!

From such a blog comes the rare moment when a winger manages to find fault with just one of many bad programs: Medicare Part D.

Maybe if the legislators had written it instead of drug companies the people it is meant to serve (other than big pharma) could benefit.

The Plank: "So just how badly is President Bush's Medicare prescription drug program, known as 'Part D,' going? On Tuesday morning, I landed in Nashville, Tennessee, to find this bold headline atop the Tennessean front page: 'Pharmacists Decry Medicare Chaos.' As the article went on to explain, 'Area pharmacists are saying that the federal government's new drug plan for the elderly and disabled is a nightmare for druggists and an out-and-out catastrophe for the poor.'"

FYI, the current issue of Consumer Reports contains an illustrative article on how to BEGIN to think about identifying a Medicare Part D provider. In their test case that uses a real-life octegenarian buying her drugs from Canada they find that her best deal is, buying her drugs from Canada.

Huh, go figure.