“Probably an old guy with no money and no hope. This economy is brutal on seniors or people nearing retirement.”
Elderly and Expendable
Posted By Tait Trussell On June 17, 2010
The Obama Administration and the Presidents pals in Congress have been on a deliberate course to write off Americas senior citizens as a lost cause politically. This decision is based on an internal Democrat study indicating that seniors dont trust Obama.
The Democrats, in fact, have stiffed the countrys seniors: ranging from multi-billion dollar cuts in Medicare [1] to driving physicians to drop seniors as patients by delaying [2] and cutting federal reimbursements to such medical specialists as cardiologists and oncologists, who treat the biggest killers of seniorsheart disease and cancer.
The disdain toward seniors has included cuts in home health care [3] and payments to hospitals to new taxes on medical devices [4] on which many seniors depend. Add to this: increases in the medicare tax [5] on some working seniors and cancellation of the traditional cost-of-living boost to Social Security checks [6] for 2010 and 2011.
During the stretched-out debate over the new health law, seniors continually heard that Medicare would be slashed by $500 billion. The final bills provisions included $132 billion chopped from Medicare Advantage, [7] the enhanced private version of Medicare in which 25 percent of seniors are enrolled....
https://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/16349/
Older people, seniors and baby boomers who voted for him really screwed themselves.