] An Orwellian taint is emerging in the Bush
] administration's big victory last year in wringing the
] Medicare prescription drug subsidy from a balky Congress.
] The plan is being sold to the public through
] propagandistic ads disguised as TV news reports, and it
] turns out the government's top Medicare actuary was
] muzzled by superiors during the debate about the
] program's price tag.

This is probably a coincidence, but certainly the people who developed this PR campaign should not be working in the government.