The Medicare budget blues continue. Now the Office of Management and Budget says that the Medicare Modernization Act will cost nearly $42 billion more over the next 10 years than the previous estimate made by federal actuaries after the law was passed. The Washington Post reports that the new figures were given “privately to some members of Congress.”
Hmmm. Is that anything like the figures given "privately" to former Medicare official Tom Scully by an actuary who says he was told to lie about the true costs?
Posted by schwitz at September 20, 2004 12:39 PM