Dane: Kerry's policy is germaine to the real world we live in.
Kerry's policy DOES put the president's policy in full context in relation to the real world.
To critique the president's policy on Medicare is what this thread is about and to do so without full context is meaningless.
What's being critiqued here, is the incomplete accounting of costs involved in this program. Had the proper cost been presented at the outset, the calculus involved in voting on the bill and signing it into law may very well have changed.
The question then becomes, was the omission of this $130 billion due to deliberate misrepresentation (took the low end of the range and presented it as the real number) or ignorance (forgot to include the impact of changing demographics or inflation). Once the root cause is discovered, we should attempt to determine a method for preventing like incidents in the future.