Did ya think Bush just suppressed environmental reports that don’t agree with his policies?

The Bush administration’s top Medicare accountant has calculated how millions of senior citizens would be affected by bringing private managed care into the program, but the administration won’t release the information.

An earlier analysis suggested that a Republican plan to inject market forces into Medicare could increase premiums for those who stay in traditional programs by as much as 25 percent. If that’s still the case, it could help Democrats who argue that the GOP plan is risky for those who want to stay in traditional Medicare, where they can pick any doctor, rather than move to a managed care plan.
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Medicare chief Tom Scully said in an interview Wednesday that Democrats had no right to request the information from Foster in the first place.

“They don’t have the right on the Hill to call up my actuary and demand things,” said Scully, chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “These people work for the executive branch, period.”

Scully said he would release the analysis “if I feel like it.”

And that folks, is why you can’t let a dumb guy run the country. Bush thinks that hiding proof that he’s wrong about the environment, Medicare, WMDs, the economy, etc. will suddenly make him right. Somebody forgot to tell him that the truth doesn’t work that way. I wonder if he stays up late at night pondering whether the light in the refrigerator is on when the door is shut or whether covering his eyes will make him turn invisible.