Medicare Maze

Bush the Necromancer casts his dark shadow over the labyrinth as bewildered seniors wander, dazed and confused, under the evil spell of voodoo economics. And the Drug Lords laugh as they watch their profits rise like the noxious fumes that issue from Mount Doom.

Abracadabra Economics

The hideous complexity of President Bush's prescription drug program has reduced elderly Americans -- and their children -- to tears of bewildered frustration. The multiple options when you sign up, each with its own multiple ceilings and co-payments; the second round of red tape when you actually want to acquire some pills; the ludicrously complex and arbitrary standards of eligibility, which play a cruel and pointless game of hide-and-seek as they lurch up and down the graph paper like drunks. Suddenly a mystery is solved: So this must be what he means by "compassionate conservatism."

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