White Household adviser to President Bush the elder.

 White Household adviser to President Bush the elder; then, during the 1990s, as CEO of the Establishment of Habitant Welfare Systems [now the Union of Habitant Hospitals]; and now, as CEO of the largest policy set in the macrocosm -- the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] -- with arguably the most micromanaging and cantankerous instrument panel of directors any indemnity head has ever had to endure: the U.S. Coitus. In each of these different roles your personal marking has been outspokenness, which has raised some eyebrows in Evergreen State, D.C., but also has earned you a good deal of obedience even among phratry who might not invariably agree with you. You were recently quoted in the papers as state bluntly critical of Medicare, the very written document over which you preside. Could you elaborate on that disapproval? What is so damage with traditional Medicare, which, scrutiny after sight shows, is remarkably popular among Medicare beneficiaries and the world?


Tom Scully: What I said was that Medicare was a "dumb cost methadon." Consider, for object lesson, how Medicare now pays oncologists for the roughly $6 one million million of medicament drugs used region the medical building that Medicare does masking, mainly for condition care rendered in the offices of oncologists.