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The article tells me that Wilson probably voted in support of the bill without realizing the loophole in section 1011. If you really wanted to get to the bottom of the issue, you might investigate to see who proposed and put section 1011 into the bill in the first place. (Watch out, it could be a Democrat).

In my opinion, the stronger argument against Wilson's support for the "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003" was that it was paid for entirely by adding to the deficit. The Republicans surely knew this as they were drafting the bill, but it was more important to them at the time to score political points, then it was to abide by their own so-called fiscally conservative ideology.

At least the Democrats are doing a better job of keeping the costs down on Health Care reform. The only problem is that the deficit has become a truly powerful political weapon from the pundits to defeat the bill - even the same ones who cared so little about the deficit during the Bush administration. Now *that's* the kind of hypocrisy that I think is worth pointing out.