] The administration's Medicare chief revealed Tuesday
] night that the prescription drug program will actually
] cost not $400 billion, not $434 billion, not $551 billion
] but $732 billion over the next 10 years. That's an
] increase of 83 percent over what the administration told
] Congress when it was selling the bill -- enough money in
] real dollars to cover the entire costs of the wars in
] Afghanistan and Iraq to date or to eliminate the budget
] deficit that the administration projects for 2009.

hmmm... and what does this say to the Social Security numbers coming out of the White House?

Salon.com Politics - The Medicare Drug Benefit Boondoggle