BCT Editorial – 10/22/06

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Break the bank; Editorial; Beaver County Times; October 22, 2006.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject editorial.

“The Medicare prescription drug plan is going to cost about $13 billion less than originally projected for this year.

“The Washington Post reported outgoing Medicare chief Mark McClellan said the bill would be about $30 billion instead of $43 billion.

“But that’s no reason to break out the champagne.  In the long run, the baby boom generation, the first wave of which is only a few years away from retirement, was going to break the Medicare bank - and that was before this expensive, flawed drug prescription plan was added to it.”

[RWC] The Times has no shame.  At the same time it repeatedly bashes the Medicare prescription drug plan for purely partisan reasons, Times editorials lobby for a taxpayer-funded national healthcare system for everyone that would undoubtedly include prescription drugs.

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