Two Minnesota Republicans in recent days blasted the Bush administration's Medicare prescription drug "benefit" because of how it forced states to solve many citizens' problems with the program.
The Star Tribune reports that "hundreds of low-income Minnesotans have been affected by a computer glitch that mistakenly cut them off from access to subsidized drugs." Governor Tim Pawlenty said the feds' implementation of the program has been "awful." He also said, "I don't think it was well thought-out to begin with," calling the plan "almost mind-numbing" in design.
The Star Tribune also reports that Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) called the program's problems "inexcusable" in a letter to Medicare administrator Dr. Mark McClellan.
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