GOP Willing To Kill Medicare, You & Your Family---SO---rich people can recieve more tax breaks

[kpete]

Any deficit cutting, real or imagined, is there to pave the way for even more tax cuts for rich people.http://www.eschatonblog.com/2011/04/and-another-reminder.html


TUE APR 05, 2011 AT 09:11 AM EDT
If Gop Kills Medicare it will Kill Me, My Family and You
bySteven D

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For most people, though, their will be no choice, if the Republican plan to eliminate Medicare is passed into law all so the rich can receive another tax cut to from the current 35% to 25%. If you are unemployed or underemployed you are not saving money for retirement, much less the cost of health insurance when you hit 67. The voucher you receive for health insurance (if you live that long) will be worth less than a drop of spit in the ocean.

So you won't have insurance worth spit if you to make it to 67. You will die earlier than you should so rich people can receive more tax breaks. I think the Republicans had a word for that back in 2009 when they opposed health care reform: Death Panels. Well, that usage was a lie. The health care reform act contained no "death panels" who would decide who would live and who would die.

But the Republicans in Congress and anyone else who supports the elimination of health care is acting in effect as a death panel. If their bill passes, and Medicare is eliminated, guess who would be selected for "early retirement." Well unless you are filthy rich and can afford a gold plated health care plan, the people selected to die early and suffer great misery while awaiting that early death from lack of sufficient health care would be you and me.

And the people making that selection wouldn't be a bunch of faceless bureaucrats. No, they would be members of the party that calls itself the GOP.

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http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11966/11-17-Rivlin-Ryan_Preliminary_Analysis.pdf
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/05/963573/-If-Gop-Kills-Medicare-it-will-Kill-Me,-My-Family-and-You

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update to add this from TPM:

DEEP BREATH - KEEP IT SIMPLE
So here goes. What the Republicans are proposing are not cuts. Some level of cuts and/or cost containment in Medicare are necessary because medical inflation is growing so quickly. But these aren't cuts. They're using a temporary budget crisis and the need to slow the rate of Medicare costs over long run simply to abolish the program. That's a bait and switch. It's the medical side equivalent of the "private accounts" bamboozle that President Bush used in 2005 to try to phase out Social Security.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/04/deep_breath_keep_it_simple.php?ref=fpblg

[still_one]

1. curious how those on Medicare voted in the midterms? /nt

[ladjf]

2. Simple as that! Hello Americans, do you still have a grain of sense?

[spinbaby]

3. Death panels

They're giving us death panels because that's what private insurance would mean to the elderly. Need heart surgery? Too bad, you're too old.

[lonestarnot]

4. Old razor backs, wonder how they're liking what they voted for now?

Assholes. I'm going to give them an earful when they shut it down.

[indepat]

5. These are but small prices the GOP are willing to pay so rich people can get more tax

breaks: older people who are not wealthy need to get over it as do those who some day will be. :patriot: