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WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued today’s “Bush Administration’s
Misstatement of the Day” on the Medicare drug bill slated to be signed
by President Bush on Monday, December 8, 2003.
In
a USA Today letter to the editor, Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Services Administrator Tom Scully, wrote:
“I
believe this law is good because it will help every Medicare beneficiary.”
(USA Today, December 2, 2003)
Today,
however, it was reported in the New
York Times under the headline Health Industry Bidding to Hire Medicare
Chief:
The
federal official who runs Medicare and was intimately involved in drafting
legislation to overhaul the program is the object of a bidding war among
five firms hoping to hire him to advise clients affected by the measure...
Mr.
Scully has made no secret of the fact that he has been looking for jobs
outside the government for more than six months — even as he spent hundreds
of hours in closed sessions with House and Senate negotiators working out
countless details of the legislation, which makes the biggest changes in
Medicare since creation of the program in 1965.
Schakowsky
asked, “Whose interests was Mr. Scully looking out for during negotiations
on the Medicare bill, his or the millions of seniors who are about to lose
so much under this sham
Medicare bill?” |
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