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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 06:40 PM
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House Panel Rejects Probe Into Medicare Dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives panel on Thursday rejected along party lines a Democratic bid to force the Bush administration to turn over records about the estimated cost of last year's Medicare drug bill.

Democrats say the prescription drug benefit measure, which they mostly opposed, would have been defeated had lawmakers known that the administration's cost estimates were about one-third higher than the $400 billion, 10-year estimate by Congress' own budget office.

A top Medicare actuary Rick Foster accused Medicare's then-chief Tom Scully of threatening to fire him if he shared his cost estimates with lawmakers before the vote.

Democrats wanted to force the administration to release the records and establish that it cannot hide information from the legislature.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040923/pl_nm/health_medicare_dc
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 06:44 PM
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1. Are you talking about the Medicare blackmail scandal ?
That's what it should be called and lets get our pundits to do just that and add it to the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Plame outing scandal,Intel report coverup scandal, etc. Pass it on.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 02:41 AM
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2. So many scandals, you can't keep up with them all!
Covered from time to time by the print press, and not at all by TV news, so under the radar for most Americans --
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