Medicare Bill Would Enrich Companies (washingtonpost.com): "The employers would get $70 billion in direct payments and $16 billion more in new tax breaks over the next 10 years. Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the federal agency that runs Medicare, said employers 'should be having a giant ticker-tape parade.'...They requested what Scully called 'a modest buyout,' equivalent to perhaps $350 per retiree. The bill, he said, provides more than twice that amount, a sum 'way beyond their wildest requests.' "