Medicare Scare-Mongering -GOP "obscuring and twisting the facts and spreading unwarranted fear" (NYT

[jefferson_dem]

Medicare Scare-Mongering

It has been frustrating to watch Republican leaders posture as the vigilant protectors of Medicare against health care reforms designed to make the system better and more equitable. This is the same party that in the past tried to pare back Medicare and has repeatedly denounced the kind of single-payer system that is at the heart of Medicare and its popularity.

For all of the cynicism and hypocrisy, it seems to be working. The Republicans have scared many older Americans into believing that their medical treatment will suffer under pending reform bills.

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Republican opponents have also been warning that planned cuts in payments to hospitals and other health care providers might make them less willing or able to serve Medicare patients. If true, that is a problem that Congress will have to address in the future.

We have long championed Medicare. And we believe elderly Americans, and all Americans, should closely examine the proposed health care reforms.

But the Republicans have done far too good a job at obscuring and twisting the facts and spreading unwarranted fear. It is time to call them to account. President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have to make the case forcefully that health care reform will overwhelmingly benefit Americans — including the millions of older Americans who participate in Medicare.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27sun1.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

[Crosseyed Jesus]

1. The Rethuglicans Are Insignificant

They play the Fear Card better then a strong arm bully. They are what they are....scum of the Earth in their Corporate noose.
What needs to be focused on is the Democrats that are under the illusion that they are Rethuglicans. Or is that Corporate Butt Puppets? One of the same would you not agree.
But seriously what is needed here for the above mentioned Dem's is a little trephination.