[rabscuttle385]

But even at the start, the program embodied the principle of government control over provision of delivery of healthcare services, something Republicans still say they oppose. Yet their opposition to the socialized medicine the Democrats are pushing now appears more opportunistic than principled when coupled with their sanctimonious defense of Medicare. They have already accepted in the Medicare program the underlying principle of "Obamacare"-the belief that government can and should be the provider of health care for the American people.

Behold the Bush-McCain-RINO legacy!

[dalebert]

you watching Beck?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The GOP had their eyes wide open when Rats did themselves in by attacking America’s sacred cow.

[Ingtar]

Actually, working at a hospital now, I see that Medicaid payments to providers are about to drop to about 1/3 of what they are now. Before long, they will have their health care crisis: no one will accept Medicaid patients as they cost too much.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Defeat Obamacare first, then draft a blue-print plan to phase-out Medicare and Medicaid. Yes, these programs should be phased-out and not “saved.”

[Jim Robinson]

Medicare is unconstitutional. And it’s bankrupt.

[Doogle]

.."why I can get, I can get the ah ah gang of 14 to ah smooth things out, so I ah ah so I can be loved by ah....ah...everyone like the NYT's told me they would ..ah..."

[Doogle]

.."why I can get, I can get the ah ah gang of 14 to ah smooth things out, so I ah ah so I can be loved by ah....ah...everyone like the NYT's told me they would ..ah..."

[unixfox]

I have an idea. Instead of working on a plan to keep destroying the country...

Why not craft a better tax system, say, either a flat tax or a sales tax of some sort, do away with the income tax and abolish the IRS?

I know, I know, these people can't understand simplicity. They are just too damn arrogant and self absorbed to do anything RIGHT!

[RC2]

Remember, Republicans ran McCain because they knew he couldn’t win. Republicans did not want the financial mess this country is in. Figure this out...McCain was broke, he was out, he had to carry his own luggage in the airport. How did he come back to take the lead? He’s a waterboy for the Republicans and now he’s a waterboy for Obama.

If people are going to take this country back, they need to replace all the Republicans that are in the back pocket of the Democrats. There’s no difference in the two partys today.

[depressed in 06]

Medicare, while not quite the Ponzi scheme Social Security is, is still a program we have already paid for and for that deserve. We paid for it, now those nasty little sheets running around high school with their pants below their ass can pay, for the rest of their lives, for us.

[Impy]

As effective and amusing the tactic has been, it does entail embracing medicare.

[bamahead]

Republicans may see a short-term tactical advantage in being the born-again champions of Medicare, but they are sowing the seeds of and the nation's and their party's ruin.

If neither party thinks they can win hearts or minds by any strategy other than shameless pandering, we are so screwed...



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