VP Biden: “Mom, It's Hokum. It's a Bunch of Malarkey.”

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WED, SEPTEMBER 23, 5:51 PM EST
“Mom, It's Hokum. It's a Bunch of Malarkey.”




At a town hall meeting today with seniors in Silver Spring, MD, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the release of a new report, "Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America's Seniors." The Vice President was perfectly clear: "Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare."


He joked about having to disabuse his own mother of myths being spread around about "death panels" and reduced Medicare benefits, getting laughs at the line: "I said, 'Mom, I'm trying to kill you," before explaining to her that it was a "bunch of malarkey."

The new report out of HHS addresses some of the common questions American seniors have about health insurance reform: How will reducing subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans affect me? How will health insurance reform make my care more affordable? Will health insurance reform actually improve my care? Will I have a choice of doctor? Will Medicare be there for me in the future?

For each of these questions, the report details the problems with the status quo and discusses the solutions provided by the President’s health insurance reform plan. Some of the solutions listed in the report include:
Preserving and strengthening Medicare
Cutting high prescription drug costs
Making preventive services free
Ending overpayments to private insurance companies that cost all Medicare beneficiaries
Improving quality and patient safety
Making long term care services more affordable

More pics and video at link
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

[monmouth]

1. My mother's fav was "that's a lot of who shot john"...I have no idea...lol...n/t

[lillypaddle]

5. Judge Judy says that all the time

"that's a lot of who shot John." Not that I ever watch Judge Judy, mind you. :blush:

[gateley]

14. You just busted yourself! nt

[gateley]

13. I've never heard that before! Wonder where that came from? nt

[Jennicut]

2. "Mom, I'm trying to kill you".

:rofl:

If that doesn't make the whole death panels crap seem ultra ridiculous, I don't know what would.
It is total malarkey. But seniors can be easily confused and this is what Rethugs wanted.

[ProSense]

6. .

:rofl:

[PatSeg]

15. Joe knows how to communicate with average people

so well. We need him out there more talking about health care reform. This was the perfect response to the "death panel" nonsense and when Joe talks, people really GET IT.

[Odin2005]

3. LOL, Joe is a riot!

:rofl:

[AspenRose]

4. Damn, missed him again.

:banghead:

[vaberella]

7. my mums fave is...Bool Sheet! Ugh..that Haitian accent. ^_^ n/t

[Muttocracy]

8. :-D nt

[wroberts189]

9. How is it the pubs are so successful at telling big stupid idiotic lies?

Despite the fact they always get debunked and almost always backfire in the end?


They even got the VP's mom believing them.

Damn I wish our country was a bit more educated than that.

[Pryderi]

10. Malarkey and Hokum :GOP Consultants n/t

[elleng]

11. He was around the corner from me,

and I didn't know it! I shop with some of the folks in the audience. (Grocery shop, that is. Used to see them in Starbucks, too.)

[gateley]

12. Aw, wish you could have known! I bet there are a LOT of relieved seniors after

hearing Joe. He's a treasure.