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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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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.
Democratic Congressmen suggested that the government should ______.
选项
A、be enthusiastic in providing a drug benefit to the people
B、Oppose the new legislation with thundering protests
C、give more money, so to speak, to medicine makers and retailers
D、provide financial assistance to people wanting to buy life insurance
答案
C
解析
根据第二段第二句...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.中的health insurer(健康承保人)指的是medicine makers and retailers。从they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit可知政府本就对这事很热心,排除A项。根据Congressional Democrats...opposed the bill. thundered...可知是Democrats在反对,排除B项;根据smaller incentives to health insurers to participate可排除D项。
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