Medicare reform

Buried deep in this story was a sentence that strikes me as a potentially big deal:

Once he gets past the midterm elections, Bush plans to introduce a concept that, if anything, is even more ambitious than his failed Social Security plan: a grand overhaul that would include not only that program but Medicare and Medicaid as well.

Wow. Perhaps my biggest criticism of Bush thus far is the absurd prescription drug benefit, which adds on huge costs to a program that is already threatening to blow a hole in the budget. If a successful reform package could be passed that would go a long way towards correcting this error.