ObamaCare and Medicare: American People Condemn ObamaCare for Cutting Medicare

You will remember that the Obama/Democrat health care "reform" bill CUTS $500 BILLION dollars from Medicare. However, you will also remember that such amount will NOT be used to help save Medicare. Not one single dime of that $500 billion dollars will be applied to help the solvency of the Medicare system. Instead, it is all to be used to "pay for" (lol) the Obama/Democrat health care bill (ObamaCare).


Here is the actual AP/Yahoo "News" headline (boycott Yahoo):


AP-GFK Poll: Americans say we don't have to make Medicare cuts"


Isn't that a "marvelous" piece of propaganda from the "Anti-American, Despicable Associated Press" (complete, official name)? I could write an entire book on the things wrong with that headline. But don't despair and hang yourself ("Airplane"). I am not quite going to do that.


Yes, you can see that the headline does not lie to you (my headline). If Americans truly do--this is the same polling outfit that WRONGLY found Obama to have a 60% "approval rating" a week or so ago)--thinnk that no cuts should be made in Medicare, then they are CONDEMNING ObamaCare (which does not even use its cuts in Medicare to help Medicare).


Nor is Paul Ryan's plan to "cut" Medicare. NO person 55 or over will even see a change. In fact, this is a reason people like me (64, by the way) think the Ryan plan is not good enough. It DELAYS any real deficit savings until ten years or so in the future. No, I am not saying we should have major, immediate cuts in Medicare. I AM saying that we NEED massive cuts NOW in Federal spending. I have previously outlined some of the draconian things (from a leftist point of view) I would do. However, you can see the problem with this PROPAGANDA "poll" from the partisan political hacks at the AP. There is NO WAY the pollster could explain the Ryan plan to people, and yet the poll is designed to suggest that people "oopose" the Republican plan to "cut" Medicare. Not only does the Republican plan--the Ryan plan--not "cut" Medicare for anyone 55 years of age or older, but it really does not "cut" Medicare AT ALL. It rESTRUCTURES Medicare into the same kind of program now represented by the Medicare Drug Benefit program and by Medicare Advantage (which ObabaCare intends to destory). The idea is that people presently under 55 will have a competitave, lower cost program BETTER than preesnt Medicare, and certainly better than the Medicare that they can expect in the future if Obama and the Democrats have their way.


Yes, and I am serious enough about this to seriously consider not voting for a Republican candidate who does not do it, Obama and the Democrats need to be CORRECTLy accused of DESTROYING Medicarein the very near future. The news in the past week is that Medicare will RUN OUT OF MONEY in 2024--6 years earlier than previously expected. And even before then, the combination of Medicare and Medicaid (increased by ObamaCare) is going to bankrupt us. Republicans need to be running ADS, without FEAR of the mainstream media, accusing Democrats of being willing to destroy Medicare--as illustrated by that $500 billion being cut without even helping the solvency of Medicare. HOW are Democrats planning on having Medicare exist for the people Paul Ryan is trying to save it for? Easy. DEATH PANELS, and rationing. Since Democrats are unwilling to do anything else, that is the ONLY way to "save" Medicare (while killing off seniors). Yep. Ads again. For every Democrat ad accusing Repubicans of wanting to kill seniors and destroy Medicare, there should be TWO ads accusing Democrats of wanting to kill off seniors (deprive them of medical care) and destory Medicare.


Republicans need to AGGRESSIVELY assert (correctly) that they are the party trying to save Medicare, while Democrats are perfectly willing to see it destroyed--even willing to accelerate the process with ObamaCare. The Medicare actuary in the Obama government has laready said that ObamaCare will ADVERSELY affect care under Medicare.


If Republicans are unwilling to stand up to Obama and the Democrats on this, aggressively, AND stand up to the attacks from the mainstream media, then they deserve what they get.


P.S. No proofreading or spell checking (bad eyesight making it way too time consuming, eve if bad typing makes it pretty darn desirable).