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needs fixing, but how is this different from the Affordable Care Act that these same Republicans insist must be repealed?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?
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Art of Governing in Reverse - Redux
Some members of Congress, including Republican Representative Nan Hayworth of New York and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, want to back out of the deal reached on raising the deficit--a deal agreed to after lengthy and painful negotiations that nearly closed down our government late last year. House Budget Committee Republicans have met with majority leader Eric Cantor to discuss further reductions to programs that are under Congress' control, (like Medicare), thus re-opening the whole spending debate.
what eye thynk: This is deja vu all over again. (See my post of March 8 "The Art of Governing in Reverse".)
Senate leadership has already said that any measure attempting to alter last year's agreement will not be put up for a vote in the Senate, effectively making the whole argument moot; but House Republicans still seem determined to waste time on what is essentially just an opportunity for some members to out-conservative each other.
Their focus on Medicare once again shows that, when it comes to spending parity, it will be those most fragile who will be exploited while the very wealthy continue to purchase government in their own image.
what eye thynk: This is deja vu all over again. (See my post of March 8 "The Art of Governing in Reverse".)
Senate leadership has already said that any measure attempting to alter last year's agreement will not be put up for a vote in the Senate, effectively making the whole argument moot; but House Republicans still seem determined to waste time on what is essentially just an opportunity for some members to out-conservative each other.
Their focus on Medicare once again shows that, when it comes to spending parity, it will be those most fragile who will be exploited while the very wealthy continue to purchase government in their own image.
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