The Republican Plan To Let Medicare Die

[True_Blue_KY_Dem]

(edited for copyright purposes-proud patriot Moderator Democratic Underground)


Source: Newsweek

During a webcast meeting with Organizing for America on Thursday, President Barack Obama outed the covert Republican plot to strangle Medicare to financial death.

He explained to the group that if Congress does nothing, if health care reform fails, "Medicare will run out of money in eight years."

Obama and the Democrats are pressing for health care reform to provide people under 65 with some semblance of what those over 65 have - government-assured affordable medical insurance. At the same time, for Medicare, Obama said, "Part of what we want to do is strengthen it, so it is there over the long haul."

"It is not as if," he said, "if we just stand still, everything is going to be okay."

Immobility is exactly what Republicans want, however. "No change" is their slogan. They've offered zero substantive reform for health care. In the years when they controlled Congress and the White House under former President George W. Bush, they did nothing to repair financial problems with Medicare. In fact, they falsely minimized the price tag of the new prescription drug program, Medicare Part D, and drove up the cost by forbidding government negotiation for lower medicine prices. In addition, although they failed to accomplish it, they pressed to privatize that socialist program called Social Security -- just months before the stock market tanked.

This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty. The GOP has made it clear they believe the public option being proposed in health care reform is socialism - an evil that must be eradicated at all costs. Of course, Medicare, a government-sponsored health care program for all people over 65 actually is socialist.


No link yet.

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Good job, Republicans!

[time_has_come]

1. From August 21. n/t

[timeforpeace]

2. How can Medicare benefit from health care reform? It already works.

[Redwraithvienna]

9. Read then Post :

"Medicare will run out of money in eight years."

[glinda]

10. Medicare does work. It needs a large infusion of money and people contributing

as well as overall revamping of medical costs and procedures to make it viable for years to come. Medicare has been a huge huge huge help to our home.

[byebyegop]

11. Did you read the article? n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Obama's ace in the hole?

Educate those who are standing against reform, that if they back the republicans, their beloved medicare will disappear?

[tinrobot]

4. Can he please shout that from his bully pulpit?

"The GOP wants to take away your Medicare" has a nice ring to it.

Turn the fear tactics of the Republicans against them...

[True_Blue_KY_Dem]

5. Been trying to find the link for this................

I had it last night?

[lumpy]

6. I am sure most Medicare recipients know this to be a fact,

At least those who are not suffering from paranoia or are not blind to politics. Traditionaly, Republicans have fought tooth and nail against progressive social programs. The weapons they have stored in their political war chests are those used throughout the ages, unrelenting warfare, economic serfdom and a promise of a skinny chicken in every pot. We pay plenty for their 'protection'; top dogs split the fortunes of economic war and the underdogs get the leftovers.

[Turbineguy]

7. We used to have the Soviet Union

now we have the republican party.

[CountAllVotes]

8. no link; 10 paragraphs

yeah right! :eyes:

:puke:

[time_has_come]

12. LINK HERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/the-republican-do-not-res_b_265499.html

All yous gotta do is copy a short portion of the article, place it within double quotes, and search for it in google news.