For the Anyone But Bush archives, the Moonie Times has this lead in a story:
President Bush signed a prescription-drug act two months ago that is actually hurting his popularity instead of boosting support from the elderly as intended.
A Gallup survey found that public disapproval of Mr. Bush's handling of health care has increased 13 percentage points since last year. The Jan. 19-Feb. 1 survey found 57 percent of the 1,001 Americans surveyed disapprove of Mr. Bush's health care policies, compared to 35 percent of voters who approve.
Mr. Bush finds himself under fire from two directions on the health care issue. Democrats say the Medicare plan doesn't do enough to defray prescription expenses for retirees, and Republican critics call the drug benefit an unprincipled bid to buy votes in November.
It's officially getting to be time to end the circular firing squad that has been the primaries...candidates trashing each other does nothing but ruin the momentum of little things like this. The DNC needs to be working on capturing these voters now, not soothing the egos of aspiring presidential candidates.
Issues like this are going to send the Village Idiot back to Crawford, unless we drop the ball and continue to watch the candidates call each other names...it's getting to be our race to lose. Let's not.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.19.04 at 11:52 PM
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The supposed beneficiaries of this big pharma pork barrel know more about their costs and benefits than anyone in Congress. They watch this stuff like hawks and saw through it without any "analysis" by anyone.
AARP is taking a beating over this bill.
My Mother and her contemporaries pegged this before the ink was dry. With no way of bargaining for prices, the drug companies are going to shoot prices through the roof, and whatever help they get from Medicare is not going to make up the difference.
posted by: Bryan on 02.20.04 at 12:52 AM [permalink]
