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21. That's unfair. Medicare cuts are coming. Obama has been clear about that.

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 08:08 AM

Dec 2012

Medicare has a budget problem, according to every expert I've heard or read. Even Klugman says so.

Semantics are important, though. The "cuts" that Obama has already done (the $750M already cut, but which he doesn't call a cut), are not called cuts by some. They are called something else.

Any "reform" will in essence be a cut, since the purpose is to lessen the cost of Medicare.

So it's not fair to call people like Krugman not Democrats because they differ with your opinion.

No one is in favor of cuts. But recognizing a necessity is different from wanting a cut. Something must be, and will be, done. The only question is what will be done, and how much money is needed to make Medicare solvent.

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