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Cover-Up Costs - The Bush administration may have broken the law on Medicare.
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 01, 2004 04:14pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 1, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | National Review Article!
Recently revealed federal documents show that the Bush administration estimated last year that the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit could cost almost $600 billion, more than half again as much as it publicly predicted at the time. Even worse, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has concluded that administration efforts to conceal this and other unflattering cost forecasts of the proposal while it was debated "appear to violate a specific and express prohibition of federal law."
An April 26 Congressional Research Service memorandum determined that the Bush Administration's cover-up of Foster's estimates may have violated at least five federal laws
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