[MrFreedom]

Medicare Plan Includes $1B for Immigrants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1028452/posts?page=2

[MrFreedom]

[k2blader]

Bump.

[plain talk]

Well, this is mindless reporting. Without this handout they would pay all of it right? A good reporter would report the root cause and compare what the people would pay before and after the plan. Its never enough for these people.

[Agnes Heep]

It requires neither data nor prognostication to know that when a third party with deep pockets pays for something, the price of that thing will rise.

[Reagan Man]

During the 2000 campaign, candidate Bush pledged to reform Medicare and incorporate a market based-market driven prescription drug program that would assist the elderly poor in paying for the high costs of drugs. This isn't the program the President talked about. This presciption drug program is the largest single increase in spending by the federal government since Medicare itself was created in 1965. The Congressional GOP and President Bush should both be ashamed for allowing this highly liberalized bureaucratic behemoth to become law. This isn't governing by fiscally responsible conservative public servants. This is an outrage!

[syriacus]

Don't a lot of things tend to get more expensive as the years pass?

[okie01]

Has there ever been a market wherein the intrusion of government funds and programs did not cause prices to rise?

okie01's universal law of economics: In a federally-subsidized market, prices will rise to the level necessary to consume all the available funds.