Well now isn't this fun?!? The "transition" to Medicare Part D has been disastrous for just about everyone involved. But Monday is a critical deadline for signing up for the plan, and given all of the problems, many seniors groups have asked for an extension.
Since the point of the program is supposedly to help the elderly, that would seem to make some sense. Unless you are the current president:
| President Bush has heard pleas for an extension of the deadline to sign up for new Medicare drug coverage from lawmakers, seniors advocacy groups and finally two women in his audience Tuesday. He’s rejected them all.
“Deadlines are important,” the president said at a retirement community, less than a week before the last day for most seniors and the disabled to enroll in the program without facing higher prices. “Deadlines help people understand there’s finality and people need to get after it.” |
And in case there was any doubt about why...
| Bush’s aggressive promotion of the Medicare benefit — and his refusal to push back the deadline — is likely about politics as much as policy.
The White House and congressional Republicans are hoping that the glitches of the program’s early days and the confusing signup process will have faded to a distant memory by the fall midterm elections, replaced by widespread satisfaction with having help from Medicare with prescription drug costs for the first time. |
Yet more proof that for these fools government isn't about governing. Its about winning elections.
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