Bush Medicare Program: 6 Million lost coverage, glitches of a new program

As it turns out, these furious conservatives are suffering from a particularly acute case of selective amnesia. Just eight years ago this week, the calamitous launch of President Bush's Medicare prescription drug program left over six million previously insured seniors without coverage. Hundreds of thousands more could not get their medications as problem-plagued government computer systems, confused insurers, and undertrained pharmacists left subscribers panicked and helpless. But unlike today's sabotage of the Affordable Care Act by Republicans in Congress and in the states, Democrats at all levels helped the Medicare Rx program whose design they opposed.
As the Washington Post reported in January 2006:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/04/1267237/-Six-million-lost-coverage-on-Day-One-of-Bush-Medicare-drug-program?detail=facebook