Not being a senior, not being affected by Medicare and not really being plugged into the whole prescription-drugs-for-seniors debate, I have to wonder one thing. Given Bill Frists genetic ties to HCA (his family owns it), isn't this whole thing sort of an obvious way for him (and his family) to just get richer and richer via a "Government Entitlement" program? I would think that as an ethical man (stop laughing) he would recuse himself from this discussion, and even a vote on this...
Honesty in government my butt.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.23.03 at 11:42 PM
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Sen, Frist's prescription details for the Medicare "Reform" bill would include under "Side Effects": "May provide financial benefits to Senate Majority Leader's Family." As Walt Kelly's Pogo said many years ago, "This looks like a 'cornflake of interest'." The Senator should heed the Hippocratic Oath: "Frist, do no harm."
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 11.25.03 at 04:58 PM [permalink]
Sen, Frist's prescription details for the Medicare "Reform" bill would include under "Side Effects": "May provide financial benefits to Senate Majority Leader's Family." As Walt Kelly's Pogo said many years ago, "This looks like a 'cornflake of interest'." The Senator should heed the Hippocratic Oath: "Frist, do no harm."
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 11.25.03 at 05:00 PM [permalink]
