White House Spends $18M on Medicare Ad

[Snazzy]

White House Spends $18M on Medicare Ad

Apr 27, 7:17 PM (ET)

By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is spending $18 million on a new round of taxpayer-funded television advertising to promote the Medicare discount drug card, the Medicare administrator said Tuesday.

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Enrollment for the card begins next week, the first widely available benefit from the new Medicare law that has been steeped in controversy since its passage in November.

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"You need a microscope to read the fine print that appears for a few seconds that reveals that you must pay an enrollment fee and that 'exclusions apply,'" Lautenberg said. "The major 'exclusion' could be the drug you need; the card may not offer any discount for many medications."

In addition, the ad text that Medicare posted on its Web site omits the language about exclusions. A Medicare official said it was just a clerical error.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040427/D827EK880.html

[Mattforclark]

1. I guess Bush does believe in public financing of campaigns

as long as it's only his campaign that gets the financing, anyway...

[MO_Dem]

2. Whose money is the WH using?

Could it be.....OURS?

[AZCat]

3. There certainly are a lot of 'clerical errors' in the Bush* WH

You'd think they could fix these problems by outsourcing to the Democratic Party.

I'm sure they'd be happy to take the job.

[dusty64]

4. By their new rules, particularly

cbs, will NOT be able to air this. Kinda like they denied the MoveOn.org ads as "too political". Yeah right. Once again the regime is using our money to screw us with, haved I mentioned lately how much I loathe these "people".

[maddezmom]

5. What happened to Scully's blimp? (30 million in 2003)

Medicare Spends $600,000 on Advertising Blimp

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

WASHINGTON — Finally, proof that government is full of hot air, or at least helium.

Medicare (search), the federal health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, is spending $600,000 this year to have a blimp fly at sporting events, including Saturday's Tennessee-Alabama college football game in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

The blimp is part of a $30 million advertising campaign in 2003 to make the program better known to its 40 million participants.



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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100936,00.html

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