Seniors deserve better deal

The $400 billion prescription drug plan for Medicare is so flawed that Congress opted out of the plan.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said the law reminded him of the medieval medical practice of leeching. “Every special interest in Washington is attaching itself to this legislation and sucking Medicare dry,” Sen. McCain said in a statement before the bill passed the Senate Tuesday. “We do not need leeching. What we need is reform.”

The big losers are taxpayers. All of the money used to pay for the prescription drug benefit will be borrowed. We’re talking $400 billion over the next decade — for starters. While grandpa might get a break on his Zocor, his grandchildren, and their grandchildren, are going to be paying for it.