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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (757)	11/29/2003 1:26:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

Mephisto, Usually I feel like tossing a brick at the radio when the unctuous and smarmy Scott Simon hosts NPR's Weekend Morning Edition. Today though, I was shocked and pleased to hear him interviewing a Harvard don who is an expert on Medicare. The professor stated quite plainly that the rank and file at AARP were disappointed with their management and the new Medicare bill. And then the prof went on to cut through some of the deception that Bush had created by deferring the implementation of the bill until 2006. He correctly stated that Bush will use the bill's passage as a campaign tool in 2004, when the seniors will not have had an opportunity to sort through the fine print and realize that the bill is not what was sold to the public. The professor expects a big backlash against the bill's authors in 2006. Too late to do the nation much good, I'm afraid. The die will have been cast, or miscast, as it were. Here's the segment: npr.org Medicare Reform's Political Implications NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy at Harvard University, about the political implications of the new legislation expanding Medicare.