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The current regime just cannot catch a break these days: pathetic energy policies, the "Blackwater" debacle (I try not to blog on Iraq) and now they can't even protect of our nation's most vulnerable citizens from an ill-conceived scheme that many of us thought (now correctly) was just a sneaky way to make "health care" executives richer.

Medicare Audits Show Problems in Private Plans - New York Times: "Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers that run the system’s huge new drug benefit program and offer other private insurance options encouraged by the Bush administration, a review of scores of federal audits has found."

(ever notice the recurring theme over the past ~7 years – find ways to put tons of our tax dollars into the hands of people that are already rich and then never do anything about the fact that the United States doesn't seem to get any real benefit in return?)

For the record, my mom has experienced much of what the NYT article reports; the claims are not exaggerations. Your administration can't seem to run anything properly.

Please, people, get rid of as many of these self-serving idiots in office as you can over the next few election years. Show them that you actually care for a change and aren't just falling for the rhetoric and voting on one issue you're passionate about. It will be easier in your local and state elections. Unfortunately, the whole presidential (I can't bring myself to capitalize that word anymore) nonsense in '08 will be difficult since there are so many problems on all sides that we may be better off putting a magic eight ball in charge for a while.