# I'm so tired & angry. Weak Rant. Prescription Benefit plan.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 24, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962 "2006-02-24T19:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962/1 "2006-02-24T19:46:43Z")

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Here’s a link to an article on the political fallout over Bush’s Prescription Drug Plan.

> **[The new magic makes supply-side economics old hat.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/02/the-new-magic-makes-supply-side-economics-old-hat.html)**
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> The hideous complexity of President Bush's prescription-drug program has reduced elderly Americans—and their children—to tears of bewildered...

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> The hideous complexity of President Bush’s prescription-drug program has reduced elderly Americans—and their children—to tears of bewildered frustration. The multiple options when you sign up, each with its own multiple ceilings and co-payments; the second round of red tape when you actually want to acquire some pills; the ludicrously complex and arbitrary standards of eligibility, which play a cruel and pointless game of hide-and-seek as they lurch up and down the graph paper like drunks: Suddenly a mystery is solved—so, this must be what he means by “compassionate conservatism.”

I have an elderly Mother , who has a heart condition & caner. Mt Father has a heart condition, & diabetes. The hell they have gone through with this filthy bait & switch. I’m so **tired** & **angry**.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962/2 "2006-02-25T00:57:15Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962/3 "2006-02-25T01:04:58Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Moving thread from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.

My apologies.I thought it too ewak for the Pit.

Mods, please just lock the Thread.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962/4 "2006-02-25T01:06:21Z")

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I mean: “Too Weak for the Pitt”.

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-tired-angry-weak-rant-prescription-benefit-plan/345962/5 "2006-02-25T01:14:26Z")

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> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#):
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> Mods, please just lock the Thread.

'Kay.