But woops! Even their bullshit program is just a big mess.
With tens of thousands of people unable to get medicines promised by Medicare, the Bush administration has told insurers that they must provide a 30-day supply of any drug that a beneficiary was previously taking, and it said that poor people must not be charged more than $5 for a covered drug.The worst thing about them is not just that they're evil; it's that they're evil and completely incompetent.
The actions came after several states declared public health emergencies, and many states announced that they would step in to pay for prescriptions that should have been covered by the federal Medicare program.
Republicans have joined Democrats in asserting that the federal government botched the beginning of the prescription drug program, which started on Jan. 1. People who had signed up for coverage found that they were not on the government's list of subscribers. Insurers said they had no way to identify poor people entitled to extra help with their drug costs. Pharmacists spent hours on the telephone trying to reach insurance companies that administer the drug benefit under contract to Medicare.
They haven't been able to do one thing right. Not one. Not the simplest program. It's all Michael Browns, all over the place, wanking to pictures of Reagan with one hand and taking money from the Abramoffs with the other.
9/11? A cock-up of monstrous proportions.
The search for Bin Laden? Aborted. Because of Iraq.
Afghanistan? Being aborted now. We need more troops there, probably.
The run-up to Iraq? Lies.
Iraq? The biggest fuckup in American foreign policy in our country's history.
Body armor? Not for our troops.
Katrina? Heckuva job.
Just being evil or just being incompetent would be so much better for this country.
[BTW: "Telling insurers" what to do is not exactly "free-market."]
