Posted on 08/24/2009 8:33:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The head of the Republican National Committee today unveiled a "Seniors' Health Care Bill of Rights," claiming that the GOP's first priority in health care reform is protecting seniors.
"Under the Democrats' plan, senior citizens will pay a steeper price and will have their treatment options reduced or rationed," RNC Chairman Michael Steele wrote today in the Washington Post.
While Democrats have proposed making cuts to Medicare, President Obama has insisted that the cuts will come from waste in the system -- and that benefits for seniors will not be reduced.
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Secondly, the Republican leader says, it is necessary "to prohibit government from getting between seniors and their doctors." Third, Steele writes, "we need to outlaw any effort to ration health care based on age."(continued)
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Seniors were the only demo who voted for McCain, by a 53-45 margin. If that can be brought up to say even a 56-42 margin it would go a long way towards neutralizing Obama’s huge edge among the 18-29 set.
Nah. Protecting seniors puts the nail in Obamacare.
Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good.
I appreciate Steele’s efforts.
Well if this gambit plays as well as I expect, all the other avenues open up as well. Obama has literally threatened all of us by virtue of a thinly disguised attempt to control all us. America is really in tune with this now, and they have been scared by Obama.
And seniors did not turn out in numbers as significant as in prior elections. Getting them motivated not only sends message of strength but also influences independents.
It is unbelievable.
I cannot believe we are about to become the party that caters to seniors who are bankrupting the nation.
Medicare needs to be red-lined
Medicaid cut entirely.
And the government out of healthcare
Going around saying we will “protect Medicare” is the highest form of betrayal to the right wing in this country
I supported Steele, but he now lost me
I disagree.
Why?
Well, for starters, go to the most recent Wichita KS Tea Party posts.
The couple holding the big signs, on bed sheets, that said “no Socialized Medicine”???
They were LIBERTARIANS!
And I spoke to the woman holding one end of the sign, and she said, “Well, I have paid into SS and Medicare for all these years and -—”
I had to argue with her, and tell her that one bad government program does NOT justify another bad government program -— This after a car that drove by yelled, “Medicare is Socialized Medicine, are on on Medicare??”
In other words, there are even LIBEERTARIANS that do not support the elimination of Medicare or Medicaid.
Get real.
Figure out what is possible.
Fight for THAT!
This isn’t perfect nor the enemy of good
Steele has basically said he is willing to make the Republican party and along with that, conservatives, accomplices to the bankrupting of our nation
Medicare is bankrupting our nation. For 44 years we were able to at least say “hey, we are working to prevent this by making changes to Medicare”
No longer can we even do that
Those are the hard facts.
However, the best political strategy is to explain, to retired people, that the liability, per Medicare beneficiary, is roughly $830.00 per person, per MONTH!
And, with that kind of liability, we can NOT afford anything else, not with the boomers hitting retirement age.
The hard facts are the Medicare will bankrupt this nation in a decade
However, accelerate that now with all of Obama’s reckless spending, and our day of reckoning is more like 3-4 years, whereas in 2007 it was about 12 years.
So with the Medicare disaster and with the Obama disaster the youth of this nation will be done, and will essentially be zombies during their most productive years because this nation is no longer solvent.
And Michael Steele has officially made us complicit in this crime of bankrupting America by throwing out whatever conservative principles his brain had left with this article
A good start.
I don’t know about that. 65+ were 16% of the vote in 2008. In 2004, they were...16%.
This whole thing is about Nationalized Healthcare being totally unconstitutional!
Once some kind of framework for Nationalized Healthcare is passed, with or without the blessing of the GOP, the framework will be used to incrimentalize bit by bit the original socialist scam into it's original form!
In the end we lose, They win if we compromise on anything at all.
It’s called cover. This way, if the ‘Rats succeed in passing their abomonation, the Pubbies can claim they tried to propose something better.
Ugh. I haven’t posted in quite a long time, but this looks all too familiar. I’m afraid this looks more like the Republicans allowing themselves to be sucked into a ‘rope-a-dope’.
Now the Communists will just add this ‘bill of rights’ to the current train wreck, leaving the Republicans, and especially the floppy wristed RINOs in an awkward position to oppose it. Then once the Communists get their entire piece of steaming pelosi passed, they will later simply negate anything of value in this ‘bill of rights’ scheme through activist judges and regulators.
This seriously smells like a trap.
What efforts. Did you even read it? All he proposes here is that we keep things exactly as they are. Oh, he phrases it to highlight the disaster of the Democrat proposal and makes the GOP’s idea’s seem almost revolutionary. But all they really are is a re-statement of what the citizen’s in the townhalls have stated and what exists today. Well, almost. He proposes maintaining the status quo of big government as it is right now rather than expansion, while some of those protestors are urging less government.
All this tells me is that the GOP is trying to cash in on current sentiment but have no ideas of their own to offer probably because they can’t get the RINO’s to join the conservative platform and speak as one voice.
Which if they could pull it off and keep RINO’s like McCain from engineering another sell out and argue status quo while making it seem like a brand new idea? that would probably do them wonders politically if Democrat’s continue on their current self destructive course. Right now the public would take those who just do no more harm...sad commentary but true.
When are people going to wake up and realize that seniors have to be told “no” on certain aspects of their health care demands? Can someone tell me how it all gets paid for? Is it fair to lay the bills on future generations or maybe we gut out military so we can pay for everything they want.
90% of CONgress is bought & paid for by the same group. The sheeple are wising up to this. That' s why they ALL of them ousted.
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