of it under wraps if he wanted to keep his job in the bush administration after the bill passed tom scully also went on to be a big time lobbyist with big pharma was one of the most corrupt deals to come out of congress since warren harding was president but the media completely ignored it and now almost a decade later with medicare having to pay more far more for pretty for prescription drugs than the pentagon or kaiser permanente for example republicans are yelling and screaming the program is going bankrupt and needs to be privatized it was the crown jewel in paul ryan's budget plan this year replace medicare with a voucher program. so the point so the point is don't believe the hype don't believe the pond and sue say government programs can't work in the proof is that the post office is going bankrupt and medicare is drowning in red ink the truth is they're both examples of government programs that work brillo brilliantly for over two hundred thirty years and fifty years respectively for sabotaged by republican poison pills in the last decade luckily there are two additives for the pos