"Maine officials described their program, known as Healthy Maine Prescriptions, as an experimental expansion of Medicaid, which is supposed to be financed jointly by the federal government and the states."
"But a three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled that the Maine program was not permissible, even as a demonstration project, because there was no guarantee of any state contribution and there was no federal money. In effect, the court said, drug companies bore almost all the cost."
Yeah. But aren't they the ones who are jacking up the prices sky-high because they know that they have friends in Congress and the White House to keep them from being stopped or controlled?
President Bush, sitting on Satan's knee, joins him in a good belly laugh!
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[ edited by Borillar on Dec 27, 2002 11:38 PM ]
posted on December 28, 2002 03:52:02 AM
Looks like selective reading on your part to me. Your article also says:
The federal Department of Health and Human Services approved the Maine program two days before President Bill Clinton left office. The Bush administration has defended that decision in court and has endorsed similar cost-control efforts by other states.
[ edited by Linda_K on Dec 28, 2002 03:53 AM ]
Bush knows that he can't afford politically to take a stance alongside his pharmacuetical benefactors in this so he makes the appearance of being for the state program while assuring that the drug companies win in court by using influence to either buy off or otherwise muscle the justices.
Sounds too smart for bush? Right! It is.......but it's child's play for Karl Rove.
Bush chortles with glee, patting himself on the back for screwing up another good program.
posted on December 28, 2002 11:14:52 AM
That's exactly what I meant, KRS. That past Presidents and political factions in Congress have made this very same play often enough is only new to those that are just still learning about their own government -- even if they are decades past High School age. This political play is comparable to the Democrats who at the same time send 'just enough' of their members over to the Republican side to vote on Anti-Domestic issues, while publically gathering the rest together to rail at the practice. Or, like when Bush was running for President and the GOP recruited a large group of lobbyists and clothed them as common workers and had them go pose for and to drool over Bush in front of the media.
