"Partially"? Give me a break. It was the biggest tax subsidized benefit since LBJ. We can debate all day how much it costs the tax-payers in dollars, but the bottom line is Bush screwed the pooch on that one. His so-called "compassionate conservatism" lost us the WH, the Senate, and the House.
Screw the GOP...a bunch of mealy-mouth week-kneed bunch of go-alongs-to-get-along accommodating clique-ridden punks.
But, there is absolutely NO WAY that Part D was, in any way, an election campaign issue last year.
Also, the VAST majority of Seniors are HAPPY with their Part D plan.
I am frustrated with the governments over-reaching, where regulation of Part D is concerned, but -— Part D is a PRIVATE program, with PRIVATE insurance, which is heavily regulated by the government but is still very much subject to the free market, as far as drug prices are concerned.
In FACT, there is a very, very, very good chance that the satisfaction that Seniors have, over all, with Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D of Medicare —— JUST MIGHT HELP US KILL OBAMACARE!
Seniors are, generally, so happy with their plans that they have, that they really do not want to change anything!