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This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are

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问题     This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are far shrewder than most politicians believe. This case study highlighting Washington’s inability to fool anyone is based on a recent survey of the attitudes of people on Medicare about their new prescription-drug benefit.
    Last fall, when Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare, the new law was hailed as a political masterpiece. Congressional Democrats, who overwhelmingly opposed the bill, thundered that they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit under Medicare, but they championed alternative legislation that offered a larger drug subsidy and smaller incentives to health insurers to participate. Liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy were confident that the drug bill, with plenty of holes in its benefit formulas, would inevitably be expanded around the time it took effect.
    Not many in Congress seemed troubled that the federal budget was deep in deficit, the nation was saddled with future expenditures for the Iraq war and virtually no health care expert believed that the legislation would fit into its projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework. The new law was a cynical bargain that had more to do with the 2004 election than a rational approach to the prescription-drug needs of the nation’s elderly.
    The prescription-drag legislation seems a compromise between competing ideologies inserted into a fixed congressional budget. Put another way, it was sausage-stuffing in the guise of lawmaking. And, what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly, a group that votes in disproportionate numbers. [br] "Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare" most probably means that the Congress of the USA decided to ______.
选项 A、add prescription-drugs to the Medicare program
B、allow the Medicare program to provide refunding subsidies to selected medicines to be purchased by Medicare members
C、increase payment to Medicare for refunding Americans buying prescription medicines
D、provide insurance to prescription drags purchased by Medicare participants
答案 B
解析 答案出自第二段第一行的Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare。 A选项中说的是prescription-drug，而不是prescription-drug coverage；C选项中说的是付钱给“医疗保险制度”，应该是医疗保险制度提供钱给购药的人； D选项的意思是医疗保险制度提供的保险对象是药物，它提供的保险对象应该是购药的人，所以，A、C，D三项均不正确。
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