[.cnI redruM]

I'm sure the Vanderbilts and The Rockefellers are delightful human beings. They just have no right to expect me to pay for their perscription drugs. Means testing is the only way to keep the major entitlement programs afloat. These cowards care only about the next election, not the future.

France is already struggling to pay it's pensioners on time. We are the seeing our future over there if we don't develop a back-bone and stare down the left on this issue.

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[1Old Pro]

"I see stupid people"

LOL, good one.

[JohnGalt]

What???

There isn't one person anywhere in this country that has the 'right' to steal from me so that they can purchase drugs.

The Greatest Generation = The Greatest Looters.

[CindyDawg]

Who decided what weathy is though? When it came to tax cuts I went from working class to "wealthy". It's all in what ever agenda someone is promoting. Medications are too expensive. IMO ,if the FDA approves a medication and a problem develops , and no fraud occured then the RXs shouldn't be responsible. States have programs to assist the "needy" with meds. It's the people working who can not get affordable insurance that are being taken to the cleaners.

[ApesForEvolution]

Who needs RATS when you have RINOs??

[Lancey Howard]

House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs.

I think I have died and gone to Bizarro world.
When did the House "conservatives" become Marxists?

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[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>Mr. Flake said that had his motion passed, it would have "upset the apple cart in conference, and I've said all along if I can upset the apple cart, I would."

How ironic, the only intelligent, probative views on this entire issue are being espoused by a congressman named Flake.

[Lancey Howard]

Means testing is the only way to keep the major entitlement programs afloat

Let me get this straight - - you are concerned about keeping entitlement programs "afloat"?
Personally, I would like to see them collapse under their own weight.

"Means testing" is just another form of Marxism. If I have to have my money confiscated by scumbag big government, I better be included when the free stuff (whore-politician vote-buying programs) gets distributed, no matter what my "means" are.

[MainFrame65]

"... Rep. Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican who offered the motion, says the only way to hold down costs is for means-testing to exclude the wealthiest seniors from the new drug benefit altogether. ..."

I hate that this is going to happen, because the drug benefit I have since retiring from IBM is much better than this sorry mess. But there is another way to "means test" the benefit, and that is to make it taxable income. Fot those paying tax at the lowest rates, or not at all, the burden would be small. For the wealthy, it would be more substantial. And that part of the tax could be earmarked for return to the program.

[jackbill]

I'm sure the Vanderbilts and The Rockefellers are delightful human beings. They just have no right to expect me to pay for their perscription drugs. Means testing is the only way to keep the major entitlement programs afloat. These cowards care only about the next election, not the future.

Do you typically engage in class warfare BS?

Both the House bill and the Senate bill - which are now in conference - require that 65% of the cost will be paid out of general revenue, i.e. basically the income tax. Who pays the most income tax? That's right, the "wealthy".

I'm sure that the "wealthy" would be happy to pay for their own prescriptions if they were absolved from paying for everybody elses.