GAO says Medicare videos violated law

[Guest guest]

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0504/052004cdam1.htm

The Bush administration violated anti-propaganda law when it distributed

videos to news stations earlier this year about the newly passed Medicare

prescription drug law, the General Accounting Office said Wednesday.

Parts of the " video news releases " that the Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid Services issued were not properly identified as coming from a

government source, the GAO found, making their distribution a violation of

the law that bans the use of public funds for publicity or propaganda...