[A.Hun]

He would not have been elected without a Prescription plan, and I have parents in their eighties that benefit from it.

You do remember the claims of the elderly choosing food or medicine because of the expense?

His plan at least is cheaper than the opposition's plan would have been. The country was getting a drug plan one way or another.

I cannot deny that it increased entitlements. I wish it had not been an issue. But it was...

[Small-L]

He would not have been elected without a Prescription plan, and I have parents in their eighties that benefit from it.

So you support using the police power of government to take money away from people who earned it in order to give it to people whose vote you want to buy? Sounds like Marx to me...

[jackbenimble]

I have parents in their eighties that benefit from it.

Your parents drugs are not my problem. Republicans used to understand that.

President Bush ran on a much smaller plan that he allowed to be passed. His words at the time were: "just get a bill to my desk and I'll sign it". He was more interested in a political victory then good governance. It still disgusts me.