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Key senators are sponsoring legislation that would exempt federalretirees (including retired senators) from the Medicareprescription drug bill they approved earlier this summer.

Part of the new Medicare law calls for a "demonstration program" insix metropolitan areas, allowing private health care plans to offerseniors health coverage under the auspices of the ailing GreatSociety program. 

To meet a deadline that means nothing, set only to satisfy a president who seems not to notice, the Senate is preparing to pass legislation that would make HillaryCare -- the former first lady's proposal to socialize American medicine -- look like sound public policy.

Both houses of Congress recently passed separate Medicare "reform" bills designed to provide prescription drugs to all seniors. But if the bills are so good for the rest of us, why are lawmakers desperately trying to exempt federal retirees?

The cost of the Medicare drug bill, set to go into effect fully on Jan. 1, 2006, is not only high, but is certain to soar.