Friday, April 23, 2004
Show me the money! Bush administration still hiding Medicare cost estimates
Amazing. No, not amazing. Outrageous.
My representative doesn't have the right to look at Bush estimates of what my tax dollars will bring me. Shameless.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is refusing to make public or give congressional Democrats the Bush administration's estimates of the cost of last year's Medicare legislation.
In a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a senior HHS official writing on Thompson's behalf said Democrats have no right to review administration estimates that the Medicare overhaul would cost substantially more than what President Bush and Thompson disclosed last year. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter Friday.
(via AP)
My representative doesn't have the right to look at Bush estimates of what my tax dollars will bring me. Shameless.
