STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT

The Medicare drug benefit provides only marginal benefit for seniors, but busts the budget... It supposedly benefits drug makers, but drug stocks are down today...

Trent Lott claimed to hate it, but cast the deciding vote for it.

Kennedy tried to filibuster it, and all the Democratic presidential candidates opposed it, but Feinstein voted for it.

And according to Robert Samuelson, it was never a problem in the first place.


[I don't know how, why or when, but I'm willing to bet on chaos, corruption, insolvency, and disaster.-PWP]