The WSJ runs a good attack on the “Medicare Drug Folly,” which the editorial blasts: “We’re all for a prosperous old age, but it is hardly a step toward social justice for comfortable retirees to be further subsidized by working taxpayers with mortgages and kids...” But one name is missing: George W. Bush, who is the primary backer of the $400 billion bill. The WSJ refers only vaguely to “a Republican White House that seems to have forgotten that it has an obligation to more than its own re-election.” The editorial condemns cutting deals with lefties but also suggests a government-funded alternative to all-out prescription-drug socialism: “a drug discount card or a means-tested subsidy.”
