Medicare Fiasco

How does the Bush administration respond to the Medicare Fiasco? Well, they combine their responses to a real problem (Katrina) and an imaginary problem (the so-called Social Security crisis). That's right the Twin Towers of this administration: incompetence and bamboozlement.

Yes, their response to the problem they created with drugs for seniors is...

WaPo reports: "President Bush's top health advisers will fan out across the country this week to quell rising discontent with a new Medicare prescription drug benefit that has tens of thousands of elderly and disabled Americans, their pharmacists, and governors struggling to resolve myriad start-up problems."

ReddHedd opines:

Let me see if I understand this correctly: the Bush Medicare plan is underfunded and broken. After weeks and weeks of him flying around the country on the taxpayer dime to promote this poorly planned fiasco of a "Medicare reform program," the Preznit is now going to send members of his Cabinet around the country to...erm...promote this poorly planned fiasco.

Here's an idea: how about we use that travel money to instead fix the damn program. You know, so senior citizens can get the drugs they need to keep them alive right now, instead of months down the road.

I'm thinking the money would be better spent on drugs for the elderly, the poor and the disabled than on Air Force One Presidential M&Ms, large PR backdrops and security details. Especially when it's being wasted on promoting a program that doesn't even freaking work. I'm just sayin'.