Back door tax increase w/o any fundmental Medicare reform?
Paging Governor Palin....
Increasing user fees for services that are already subject to fees to the levels where a private business would have priced them is not a “tax increase” - it would represent one of the few fiscally responsible things this sorry, silly government has done.
Also, if you think that we’re going to get comprehensive medicare reform as a predicate to raising the debt ceiling, you’ll be waiting a long, long time.