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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (512120)	9/10/2009 11:03:11 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574091

How did Bush pay for the Medicare prescription plan??? With a tax cut??? He didn't and I didn't support it at the time. But what he DID do was get a program passed which is most cost-effective and best-performing health-related program in history. The budgeted costs for Part D were originally some $725 Billion over 10 years. Last year, that estimate had been dropped to less than $400 Billion. And it has come under substantially UNDER budget every year since its inception. Not only UNDER BUDGET, but UNDER THE DOWNWARD REVISED BUDGETS year after year. The program is, by any measure, a resounding success. For $40 Billion/year (actually, $36 Billion last year), we provide drug coverage for those over 65. Nobody would have believed that was possible. IN ADDITION: There are 24M participants, versus 11 million predicted in the same period. We apparently need GWB to re-engineer the ENTIRE health care system because whatever the hell he did with Part D is exactly what we need done for the REST of the system. It is hilarious that you fools bitch about Part D and at the same time want to close the "donut hole" (which means more money). It is impossible to envision a more success government health care program.