Prescription for leadership: can the Democrats take advantage of a huge Republican failure?(MEDICARE)(prescription drug plan)

SEEMINGLY, DIVINE PROVIDENCE has delivered the Democrats the perfect issue for 2006--the epic Medicare prescription-drug screwup. Far from being an abstract (if grave) public issue like nuclear non-proliferation, this one hits up close and personal. If you don't feel the drug debacle directly, you know about it from Mom or Grandpa.

With its bewildering and useless "choices" of dozens of plans and vendors, its additional costs to more than six million low-income elderly Medicaid patients, its "doughnut hole" of huge out-of-pocket expenses, and windfall ...

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