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Official Says He Was Told to Withhold Medicare Data
washingtonpost.com ^
| Sat Mar 13,12:54 AM ET
| By Amy Goldstein
Posted on 03/13/2004 4:48:44 PM PST by sixmil
Edited on 03/13/2004 5:50:41 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator.
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The government's longtime chief analyst of Medicare costs said yesterday that Bush administration officials threatened to fire him last year if he disclosed to Congress that he believed the prescription drug legislation favored by the White House would prove far more expensive than lawmakers had been told.
Richard S. Foster, a nonpartisan Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) official who has been Medicare's chief actuary for nine years, said he nearly resigned in protest because he thought the top Medicare administrator, and perhaps White House officials, were acting against the public interest by withholding information about how much changes to the program would cost.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: armtwisting; medicare; richardfoster
A WP hatchet job? Does anyone know anything about this?
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posted on
03/13/2004 4:48:45 PM PST
by
sixmil
To: sixmil
At some point Bush is going to have to can the new tone and clean the Clintonistas out of the government.
2
posted on
03/13/2004 4:51:43 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Why the long face, John?)
To: sixmil
Rats are already asking for an investigation.
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posted on
03/13/2004 5:04:07 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Is it vietnam yet ?)
To: sixmil
It was on the yahoo headlines about 5 hours ago.
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posted on
03/13/2004 5:04:32 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)
To: Jeff Chandler
Foster got his current promotion under Clinton, but he's been around since Reagan.
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posted on
03/13/2004 5:10:53 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Is it vietnam yet ?)
To: sixmil
Richard S. Foster, a nonpartisan Department of Health and Human Services official...Sure, and I have a bridge......
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posted on
03/13/2004 5:12:12 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: sixmil
Foster has a good reputation. I'm not sure but I think there were different estimates of different plans involved and he was working on the wrong plan or his boss thought he was.
It was at least a screw up. Were there many of these screw ups ( which there aren't) it would be suspicious.
AND... WP ARTICLES HAVE TO BE EXCERPTED!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/13/2004 5:40:18 PM PST
by
mrsmith
("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
To: mrsmith
"The government's longtime chief analyst of Medicare costs said yesterday that Bush administration officials threatened to fire him last year if he disclosed to Congress that he believed the prescription drug legislation favored by the White House would prove far more expensive than lawmakers had been told."
"Richard S. Foster, a nonpartisan Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) official who has been Medicare's chief actuary for nine years, said he nearly resigned in protest because he thought the top Medicare administrator, and perhaps White House officials, were acting against the public interest by withholding information about how much changes to the program would cost."
Ummm... so which is it? Did it happen or does he simply "think" it?
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posted on
03/13/2004 7:41:16 PM PST
by
yevgenie
(Yes, Yev is back!)
To: yevgenie
Removing foot from my mouth . . . =(
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posted on
03/13/2004 7:45:07 PM PST
by
yevgenie
(Yes, Yev is back!)
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