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PALIN WAS RIGHT: OBAMA’S BUDGET DIRECTOR ADMITS DEATH PANELS WILL CONTROL DECISIONS UNDER OBAMACARE
TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 04/27/2010 | Gary P.
Posted on April 27, 2010 11:02:15 AM PDT by Patriot1259
Remember when the radical left wing, including our President, as well as the squishy, gutless Republican “moderates” lost their minds when Sarah Palin said she wasn’t all that happy to know that her special needs son and aging parents would have to stand before Obama’s “death panels” and be evaluated before they received care? Yeah, me too.
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ObamaCare Encourages Workers To Retire Early, Hinders Reform
IBD’s Capital Hill ^ | 4/9/2010 | Jed Graham
Posted on April 10, 2010 10:46:31 AM PDT by Slyscribe
Some of the most thoughtful economic policy voices on the right and in the political center have raised the idea of pushing back Medicare’s age of eligibility.
Among them are Harvard University’s Greg Mankiw, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Brookings Institution’s William Gale.
But such a policy seems much harder to imagine in the wake of ObamaCare. Would Congress really open a hole in the health care safety net at age 65 after passing a trillion dollar plan to subsidize coverage for those 64 and under?
The health care overhaul’s effect on possible changes to Medicare eligibility is among several ways it might hinder one of the most constructive approaches to reining in unsustainable entitlement spending on older Americans: getting them to work longer and rely on the safety net later.
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