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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
On a somewhat related note, I'm pissed off as hell at both Tom Scully and Tommy Thompson. Scully announced about a week ago that he's leaving his position as head of CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly HCFA, Health Care Financing Administration) as of December 15 to join a law firm or investment bank. Thomspon, head of DHHS says today that if Bush wins in '04, he won't be back with the new administration. It irritates me no end that these are the two positions who will be in charge of implementing and writing regulations for the drug benefit bill and these two people were actively lobbying for the bill and neither one of them will commit to seeing the implementation through.
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Wow. Aside from Thompson and Scully, whose plans I was not aware of, I was already rather put out by the stories that indicated that the GOP and the Dems who crossed over on this bill would be taking credit for this benefit increase during the coming election cycle even though they set a date for its implementation which will not allow us to gauge the bill's effectiveness until '05-'06 or thereafter.
But for some reason this Thompson/Scully tidbit really discourages me. Apparently the deficit is not the only issue in Washington where statements that "we will not pass on our problems to other generations, other presidents, other congresses" are somewhat laughable. And yet it doesn't seem like there is a big groundswell of recognition by the voters of this pattern of behavior by our elected and appointed government officials, in both parties and on all levels of government...
