Are there still any small government conservatives.
No, we are all part of the Libertarian Party post W's 8 year Bible Thumping Socialist Porkfest and total sellout of America to the AIPAC lobby...
I left the GOP when W and the Republican Congress socialized senior drugs in 2004. Just how eager was the W Administration to socialize senior drugs and hence flood our high schools with taxpayer funded OxyContin and Lore Tab??
This excited...
Inquiry Confirms Top Medicare Official Threatened Actuary Over Cost of Drug Benefits
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Inquiry Confirms Top Medicare Official Threatened Actuary Over Cost of Drug Benefits
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ROBERT PEARJULY 7, 2004
- An internal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services confirms that the top Medicare official threatened to fire the program's chief actuary if he told Congress that drug benefits would probably cost much more than the White House acknowledged.
A report on the investigation, issued Tuesday, says the administrator of Medicare, Thomas A. Scully, issued the threat to Richard S. Foster while lawmakers were considering huge changes in the program last year. As a result, Mr. Foster's cost estimate did not become known until after the legislation was enacted.
But neither the threat nor the withholding of information violated any criminal law, the report said. It accepted the Justice Department's view that Mr. Scully had ''the final authority to determine the flow of information to Congress.'' Moreover, it said, the actuary ''had no authority to disclose information independently to Congress.''
Mr. Scully, who resigned in December, in part to become a lobbyist for health care companies, had denied threatening Mr. Foster but had acknowledged having told him to withhold the information from Congress.
The report, by Dara Corrigan, the department's acting principal deputy inspector general, said, ''Our investigation revealed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not provide information requested by Congressional members and staff, and that Scully threatened to sanction Foster if he disclosed unauthorized information.'
The GOP proved, right there, that fiscal conservatism, patriotism to America, and truth were no longer tolerated....
