Posted on 09/23/2009 10:04:37 PM PDT by Cindy
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2009 AT 5:51 PM Mom, It's Hokum. It's a Bunch of Malarkey. Posted by Jesse Lee
[ SNIPPET: "At a town hall meeting today with seniors in Silver Spring, MD, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the release of a new report, "Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America's Seniors." The Vice President was perfectly clear: "Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare."
He joked about having to disabuse his own mother of myths being spread around about "death panels" and reduced Medicare benefits, getting laughs at the line: "I said, 'Mom, I'm trying to kill you," before explaining to her that it was a "bunch of malarkey.""
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov ...
I fogot to mention...
Vice President Biden is today’s STUCK ON STUPID award winner.
didn’t they already say they were going to cut $500 Billion out of MediCare?
Cheers!
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