Yeah, sure they will. I can write the whining stories that'll run this summer now.
Getting Big Stupid Government to force others to pay your bills must seem like magic to these newly-minted "beneficiaries".
Another unstoppable trillion-dollar-plus taxpayer obligation is gathering steam . . . . . thanks, Republicans.
Hank, I offered the same sentiment a couple of days ago and was flamed.
Like FDR and Social Security, and LBJ with Medicare, the new Bush prescription drug program is just more social engineering, aka. cradle to grave liberal socialism. In the end, this ever expanding federal bureaucracy will bankrupt America. A good argument can be made, with the debt ceiling just raised to $9-trillion, or $30,000 per citizen, America is already fiscally bankrupt.