http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1823349.php

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So what we got was a drug program set up to serve the
administration's friends and its political agenda, not the alleged
beneficiaries. Instead of providing drug coverage directly, Part D is
a complex system of subsidies to private insurance companies. The
administration's insistence on running the program through these
companies, which provide little if any additional value beyond what
Medicare could easily have provided directly, is what makes the whole
thing so complicated. And that complication, combined with an obvious
lack of interest in making the system work, is what led to the
disastrous start-up.

All of this is, alas, terribly familiar. As John DiIulio, the former
head of Mr. Bush's faith-based initiative, told Esquire, "What you've
got is everything — and I mean everything — being run by the
political arm." Ideology and cronyism take complete precedence over
the business of governing.
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