Medicare RX law an "atrocity"

Columnist Robert Samuelson, in Wednesday's Washington Post, quoted outgoing health and human services secretary Tommy Thompson reflecting on his greatest accomplishment. "You got to put the complete overhaul...of the Medicare (program) pretty much at the top of the list," Thompson said.

Samuelson counters: "Far from a triumph, the Medicare drug benefit is one of the worst pieces of social legislation in decades," later calling it a "legislative atrocity."