[DPB101]

Look on the bright side. The way things are going, Social Security, Medicine and the military are the only things the Feds will be able to be involved in. There won't even be enough money for those three.

[Uncle Bill]

Prescription Plan is Likely Step Toward Revival of Clinton Care
"The proposal is a gargantuan overreach since more than two-thirds of the nation's seniors already have viable prescription drug coverage. Many health-care observers, in fact, view it as a major step in a prolonged effort to revive ClintonCare piece by piece.

..."Political leaders . . . seeking to strengthen the state or to advance their own or their party's interests have used insurance against the costs of sickness as a means of turning benevolence to power."

So wrote Princeton University Professor Paul Starr, an architect of the Clinton health plan, in a 1982 book. Having failed to place one-seventh of the economy under government control in its first year, the Clinton administration now hopes to achieve that goal in its waning days by enticing the nation's seniors with the prospect of expanded prescription drug benefits."