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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh--we'll only go after Medicare for those under 55. We'll leave current recipients strictly alone!
Surely if you give the school bully your lunch money on the first day of school he'll leave you alone for the rest of the year. If Dems don't make big politial hay out of this, we deserve to lose.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-republican-mediscare/2012/03/16/gIQAfoWYGS_print.html
But DeMint and his colleagues think the time to end Medicare is now with a cold-turkey conversion to a private program, effective in 2014. I think if Americans actually find out the truth about what were doing, it will be a very big positive for Republicans in the fall, DeMint forecast.
All the details arent out, but Paul says his plan would cut funding of Medicare by $1?trillion over 10 years and reduce Medicares liabilities by $16 trillion. It would do that by enrolling Medicare recipients in the health plan now used by federal workers. The government would pay 75 percent of the insurance premium on average but 30 percent or less for those who earned more than $100,000 a year. The eligibility age would gradually be raised to 70 from 65. If seniors cant afford their share of the premium, they can apply for Medicaid, the health program for the poor.
With each answer, the senators seemed in danger of sparking an all-out Mediscare in the populace. No, seniors could not opt to keep Medicare as it now exists. Yes, this would sharply increase insurance costs for federal workers.
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)WINNER!
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)when adding so many seniors to the plan? Sounds so republican brilliant.
eridani
(51,907 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)This Republican Congress of Chronic Chaos is dusting off last yearssame failed playbook where seniors would lose their Medicare while Republicans give more tax breaks to millionaires and Big Oil companies.
I have one response: Bring it on.
Tone-deaf House Republicans are preparing a budget that will again protect millionaires over Medicare. As with their last budget, House Republicans are giving Americans a window into their souls. And the American people dont like what theyre seeing: Republicans relentless, reckless promise to protect the ultrawealthy at the expense of the middle class and seniors.
deacon
(5,967 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)I can't tear up my AARP card and send it to them, because I already did that after Medicare Part Dreadful.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)This fits in perfectly with their anti-choice and no contraception program.
Because the MIC only wants a supply of new, shiny things for its wars and corporate profits.
Nice symmetry from the pro-life party...
(in case someone can't tell)
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)push ANYTHING through.