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This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are far shrewder than most politicians believe. This cas
This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are far shrewder than most politicians believe. This cas
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2006-11-10
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问题
This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are far shrewder than most politicians believe. This case study highlighting Washington’s inability to fool anyone is based on a recent survey of the attitudes of people on Medicare about their new prescription-drug benefit.
Last fall, when Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare, the new law was hailed as a political masterpiece. Congressional Democrats, who overwhelmingly opposed the bill, thundered that they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit under Medicare, but they championed alternative legislation that offered a larger drug subsidy and smaller incentives to health insurers to participate. Liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy were confident that the drug bill, with plenty of holes in its benefit formulas, would inevitably be expanded around the time it took effect.
Not many in Congress seemed troubled that the federal budget was deep in deficit, the nation was saddled with future expenditures for the Iraq war and virtually no health care expert believed that the legislation would fit into its projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework. The new law was a cynical bargain that had more to do with the 2004 election than a rational approach to the prescription-drug needs of the nation’s elderly.
The prescription-drag legislation seems a compromise between competing ideologies inserted into a fixed congressional budget. Put another way, it was sausage-stuffing in the guise of lawmaking. And, what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly, a group that votes in disproportionate numbers.
From the end of the passage we would expect the author to start his next paragraph most probably on ______.
选项
A、how the senior citizens of the United States responded to the new legislation
B、the opinions of the few who anticipated what the reaction of the elderly was to be
C、what the legislators would consider doing to avoid further legislative digressions
D、major competing ideologies that differ on the coming congressional budget
答案
A
解析
在文章最后一句作者提到what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly给读者留下了悬念。
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