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"One reason the drug benefit is so confusing is that older Americans can't simply sign up with Medicare, as they can for other benefits. They must, instead, choose from a baffling array of plans offered by private middlemen. Why?"
Krugman provides insight (as always) into the political philosophy behind the new medicare drug benefit and why, as a result of that philosophy, it is so unnecessarily confusing to and unbeneficial for seniors:
"Last week I explained that the Medicare drug bill was devised by people who don't believe in a positive role for government. An insistence on gratuitous privatization--involving private corporations in the delivery of public services even when those corporations have no useful role to play--is a byproduct of the same ideology. And the result of that ideology is a piece of legislation so bad it's almost surreal."
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