AFP/Shah MaraiSong in my head:
Lets kill all our children,
and sing about it..
The Cowboy Junkies
Lets kill all our children,
and sing about it..
The Cowboy Junkies
Medicareless
Do you suppose Medicare's 50 million mistake last week has anything to do with this?
The Dallas Morning News reported over the weekend that Dr. McClellan was set to leave. Administration officials did not dispute the report. But they said they were not ready to make a formal announcement because a departure date had not been set and no one had been chosen to supervise Medicare and Medicaid on even a temporary basis.
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Democrats say the drug benefit got off to a rocky start in January and is still plagued by inexplicable problems, like Medicare’s mistakenly refunding premiums to 230,000 beneficiaries in August.
Colleagues refer to Dr. McClellan as “doctor-doctor” because he is a medical doctor and has a Ph.D. in economics. They say he has also been valuable to the administration as a spokesman, rebutting criticism of its health policies.
Dr. McClellan did not fully heed warnings about problems in the first weeks of the new drug plan. At the time, tens of thousands of low-income Medicare beneficiaries were overcharged for prescription drugs, and some were turned away from pharmacies without getting their medications. In January and February, many states took emergency action to protect their citizens. NYT Link
Do you suppose Medicare's 50 million mistake last week has anything to do with this?
The White House began searching Monday for someone to run Medicare and Medicaid, in the expectation that the current chief, Dr. Mark B. McClellan, would soon resign.
The Dallas Morning News reported over the weekend that Dr. McClellan was set to leave. Administration officials did not dispute the report. But they said they were not ready to make a formal announcement because a departure date had not been set and no one had been chosen to supervise Medicare and Medicaid on even a temporary basis.
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Democrats say the drug benefit got off to a rocky start in January and is still plagued by inexplicable problems, like Medicare’s mistakenly refunding premiums to 230,000 beneficiaries in August.
Colleagues refer to Dr. McClellan as “doctor-doctor” because he is a medical doctor and has a Ph.D. in economics. They say he has also been valuable to the administration as a spokesman, rebutting criticism of its health policies.
Dr. McClellan did not fully heed warnings about problems in the first weeks of the new drug plan. At the time, tens of thousands of low-income Medicare beneficiaries were overcharged for prescription drugs, and some were turned away from pharmacies without getting their medications. In January and February, many states took emergency action to protect their citizens. NYT Link
A chaotic drug plan and a $50 million dollar error.....Doesn't incompetence rise to the highest level......? And where is Dr. McClellan expected to go....
Dr. McClellan is expected to accept an appointment at the American Enterprise Institute, a research organization with Republican ties.NYT Link
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