Republicans in the US House of Representatives are introducing a new Medicare program this week. The program replaces the pay per use plan we have now with a plan where all senior citizens will be required to purchase their own private health insurance. A stipend will be issued to the elderly to help with the cost.
what eye thynk: Yes, Medicare needs fixing, but how is this different from the Affordable Care Act that these same Republicans insist must be repealed?
When asked to explain the difference, the committee demurred until Rep. DeMint took the microphone to say that "beginning to privatize an existing government program is very different from increasing government reach into the private health care market"; an explanation that really doesn't explain anything.
HOW is it different? If it is okay for government to "reach into the private health care market" for people over 65, why is it wrong to reach into the same "private health care market" for people in their 40s?
Do they really not see their own blatant hypocrisy or do they just hope we won't notice?
this sitting of (Republican) Congress is so hell bent on defeating President Obama and everything he stands for that they are blinded with a hatred that seems to transcend logic,thus the statement that prompted the inane comment about privatization.
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