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Obama's Medicare Fear Mongering Will Drown in the Facts

Radley2 Wrote: Aug 17, 2012 10:21 AM

And you will get a subsidy check... not a voucher, like there is a difference... for Obama money to cover your health insurance. But you may not get all the same benefits you have under your current medicare policy. Oh, you will have contraception coverage and can get your abortions paid for. You will have all kinds of good things in your policy... What is that you say? You are over 65 and don't need contraception and abortion coverage... be quiet and just do what they tell you. BUT, becasue of your age, you may not be able to get cancer drugs, or that knee replacement, because it is not cost effective at your age. You can have all the pain pills you want though... along with that contraception. What do you think of Obama's plan?

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Obama's Medicare Fear Mongering Will Drown in the Facts

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

Besides, the economy and entitlements are wholly integrated issues: We cannot ultimately fix the economy long term without entitlement reform, and we can't balance the budget or retire the debt without a growing economy.

Democrats appear jubilant about the Ryan pick, believing his close association with entitlement reform provides an opening...

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