] 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. Phony medicare news reports |