while I hesitate to feed the trolls, the answer to this is so simple and instructive it may benefit others to answer. the Medicare Part D plan that was passed by the Republican congress can be best understood as a compromise, you know that thing that the progressives say the republicans never do the progressive alternative was projected to be 40% LARGER (and of course the bill as passed has far outstripped the initial costs projected by the CBO) even the smaller bill signed by the Republican congress would find little support among fiscal conservatives who read this site, but progressives cant hang it as a huge expense on the Republicans when their won proposal would have cost substantially more