Repeal our unfunded health law? No way, says GOP

AP ^ | 9/18/11 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs over $7 trillion. Many conservatives are still upset at the way it was rammed through Congress. But when the Republican presidential candidates were asked last week asked if they would repeal the Medicare drug benefit, they said no way. After all, Republicans created it. Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," but that law is arguably less a deficit driver than the Medicare drug plan they are defending.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You are right.

Besides, with almost every government program coming in way over costs, worrying about this is majoring in minors. We need to major in the majors, and that means Obama Care front and center and the EPA and NLRB and government spending right behind it.

This is the one program that is at least working better than it was advertised. Keep it on the target list, but it does not need to be near the top.

[Razzz42]

Walmart’s drug plan..err, I mean prescription plan comes to mind as a private vs government operations.

Then generic products taking the place of brand name packaging probably has been the most help.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

“I wonder if it is a precurser to ‘assisted suicide’ to reduce the senior population.”

It most certainly is. Medicare is financially unsustainable. The only way they’ll be able to provide any of the freebies LBJ promised is to cut the payouts, and the since the seniors won’t be paying in, do the math.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/5/administration-reverses-end-life-counseling/

It’ll be back. Count on it. They got pansted on it and pulled back This time because they haven’t made Medicare broke Enough, Yet, to get the younger folks into it as they watch their own benefits dry up.

And these stories are just the tip of the iceberg on what their Depression Screenings are trying to sell more of.

http://www.ssristories.com/

[skinkinthegrass]

The GOP House already voted to repeal it...as they said they would.
But the Senate and the Obama admin nixed that.

..so true, (IIRC) shortly after taking power in the HOR....
(that sounds so good, now do / complete what you campaign on)
glad, to see your feeling better...JH :)

[Lionheartusa1]

SCOTUS is the last ditch option outside of replacing all the RINOs .

[Recovering_Democrat]

After all, Republicans created it. Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," but that law is arguably less a deficit driver than the Medicare drug plan they are defending.

bull shiite muslim.

Rick Santorum pointed out in the LAST DEBATE that the Medicare prescription drug plan has been UNDER BUDGET...Hussein's DEATHCARE LAW has been the cause of UNEMPLOYMENT, higher premiums, and a cause of ANGST in the American psyche.

This friggin' piece of crap journalism sounds a HELL of a lot like pro-Hussein propaganda...because that is what it is.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum. But oh look, pure bu!!z4!+:

...unfunded future costs over $7 trillion... the Medicare drug benefit... Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," but that law is arguably less a deficit driver than the Medicare drug plan they are defending.

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar:

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[SoJoCo]

But, you have to win on one front before taking on other fronts.

I think you're dreaming. There is no real momentum to do anything serious about Social Security. And if there were, it makes no sense to concentrate on one entitlement and ignore the two that are the real financial trainwrecks. And which are in worse shape than Social Security is.

[SoJoCo]

The GOP House already voted to repeal it...as they said they would. But the Senate and the Obama admin nixed that. We need to double down on 2010 in 2012 and get the votes to make it happen in the House and the Senate...and then it will happen.

And in the mean time the multi-trillion prescription drug plan sucks up money undisturbed.

[EternalVigilance]

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

We don’t have time. That is a limit to how much debt can be financed before no one is willing to buy bonds.

[TexasTransplant]

***** “ conclusiopns “ ******

Great word ... I am prone to them as well

TT

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

[FrdmLvr]

The masses will be on SOMA.
http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

The House GOP voted to repeal it then voted for funding it.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Have Medicare cots come down? Have they even stopped going up as much?

[Palter]

'the Medicare prescription drug plan has been UNDER BUDGET'

Does that mean its paid for? Or simply under the budget of allotted debt?

[Anima Mundi]

I never heard of this. How long has it been around and how widespread is it? It sounds insane and must be stopped. The way to stop it is to write a clear guide for parents and students themselves. They have to be taught to say no to taking such tests and if that is impossible they must be taught how to answer questions.It all seems just creepy.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Sorry, I cannot answer that...but when Santorum said it in the TEA PARTY debate, I was pleasantly surprised. No one challenged him on the statement.

I have no reason to believe Santorum was lying.

[Mariner]

Hypocrites.

There is really not a LOT of difference between the GOP and Dims when it comes to big government. They both support it...and they both profit handsomely from it.