Thursday, June 03, 2004

Medicare fraud

No, not doctors - this is from the administration. In that list of investigations currently underway, the issue of lying to Congress about the cost of the proposed Medicare bill, going so far as to threaten to fire a government employee if he told the truth, was absent. Surely it will be. What's holding it up? House Ways and Means heard testimony in March.

An April 26 Congressional Research Service memorandum determined that the Bush Administration's cover-up of Foster's estimates may have violated at least five federal laws...
  National Review article

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.