[Lancey Howard]

House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs.

I think I have died and gone to Bizarro world.
When did the House "conservatives" become Marxists?

[KarlInOhio]

The conservatives realize that if the program is means tested it is much easier to call it a welfare program than if everyone above 65 is on it. Similarly, the dems don't want to means test it because they would rather have a few rich people getting free pills than risk associating the medicare prescription program with welfare.