Bachmann attacks Obama Medicare 'plan'
Jeff Zeleny, NY Times:
She is right about the juggling of the books to take $500 billion out of Medicare to make Obamacare look more viable. I suspect that Democrats also plan to raise taxes to support Medicare and the moving of the $500 billion will make the taxes more necessary. Democrats probably believe it is easier to sell a tax increase to "save" Medicare than it is to fund Obamacare.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the latest candidate to join the Republican presidential campaign, suggested Friday that President Obama secretly wanted Medicare to go bankrupt so retirees would be forced to enroll in the new national health care law.If they moved seniors from Medicare to Obamacare wouldn't that be closer to the Ryan plan to provide seniors with premium support? I agree with her, that Obama has no plan b beyond ever increasing rationing of care and beating down the docs on costs.
“This hasn’t been talked about very much – the president’s plan for senior citizens is Obamacare,” Ms. Bachmann told party activists here. She added, “I think very likely what the president intends is that Medicare will go broke and ultimately that answer will be Obamacare for senior citizens.”
In a speech to the Republican Leadership Conference, Ms. Bachmann recounted how she attended a closed-door meeting at the White House and said the president was asked three times to produce his plan to address the financial burdens facing the Medicare program. She said the president’s “gift to senior citizens is to steal from them $500 billion out of Medicare.”
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She is right about the juggling of the books to take $500 billion out of Medicare to make Obamacare look more viable. I suspect that Democrats also plan to raise taxes to support Medicare and the moving of the $500 billion will make the taxes more necessary. Democrats probably believe it is easier to sell a tax increase to "save" Medicare than it is to fund Obamacare.
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