Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Pryce Ready to Do PR

Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce (OH-15) plans to spend some time doing public relations for President Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. The plan is very unpopular with seniors and pharmacists because of its complexity and loopholes. Instead of Pryce wasting her breath talking about the plan, she and her staff should help seniors sign up for the plan. That would be more useful than her talk.

Here is some information about Pryce's plans as revealed in the Kaiser Network site: House Republican Conference Chair Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) is urging Republican lawmakers to hold events to promote the drug benefit during the two-week congressional recess in April, Roll Call reports. Later this week, the conference will hold a "best practices" seminar to discuss the most effective ways to run Medicare events and an event planning session for legislative aides. Next week, the conference will distribute enrollment data on the drug benefit, and on March 28, conference members will begin taping public service announcements to air in their districts as the May 15 enrollment deadline nears (Roll Call, 3/15).

Click on this cartoon to reveal the truth about Bush's drug plan.