With the conservative fringes opposing any effort to truly reform America's broken health care system, we have to remember one damning fact that has been lost in the debate.
These are the people who opposed the popular and successful Medicare program back when it began.
Amazingly, they still do.
Recently, while discussing health reform, Missouri's far-right Rep. Roy Blunt (pictured here) said, "We've had Medicare since 1965, and Medicare has never done anything to make people more healthy."
What?
Medicare offers life-saving services to millions of Americans. Yet Blunt wants to abolish it and replace it with a for-profit private insurance program.
Because we've all seen how well that's worked for health care in general, huh?
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Remember, folks, they opposed Medicare too
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ReplyDeleteWildly successful? Puhleeze.
I guess if one calls turning future generations into slaves to pay for the healthcare of those who came before them, then it could be called wildly successful.
FWIW Medicare is paid for by its own recipients...It is designed so people get what they paid into it.
ReplyDeleteWow. Just wow on your ignorance.
ReplyDeleteSocial Security and Medicare recipients receive benefits in great excess of what they have paid into the system.
If what you say were true, then there would be no looming crisis in the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. My payments do not go into an account with my name on it, but rather go to a retiree currently receiving benefits. That is after huge portions of it get taken to pay for the monstrous bureaucracies that administer the programs.
As a result of government borrowing, Social Security and Medicare have become a Ponzi scheme.
ReplyDeleteThis coming from guys who are probably rich enough that they'll never have to worry about paying for health care.
ReplyDeleteNice straw man. It is noteworthy that you did that instead of commenting on the facts.
ReplyDeleteLike the fact that the debt brought on by Baby Boomer Medicare recipients is going to crush the nation. The interest alone is going to be nation crushing.
Create a government entitlement with tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities. What a great idea that was! / sarcasm
Opposing Medicare was the right thing to do then. Only an idiot couldn't see the train wreck such a massive entitlement program would create.
Whatever...
ReplyDeletePrecisely the thoughtful and hard hitting rebuttal I've come to expect from you. / sarcasm
ReplyDeleteNo surprise. After I expose supporters of Medicare and Socialized healthcare of the reality of Medicare's insolvency, they all go silent.
They just tuck tail while covering their ears saying "la la la la la la" and retreat to the comfort of their fellow worshipers of The State. And continue to push for expanded government healthcare and the acceleration of the inevitable bankruptcy of the American government.