From the
GOP website:
How Government-Run Health Care Will Reduce Health Care Benefits You Currently Receive
"Maurice Engleman, 82 ... says the controversial Medicare Advantage program ... helped him beat cancer ... Engleman, who was diagnosed with tongue cancer last year ... [said,] ‘I don't believe Medicare would have taken care of the kind of services I required.'"
MANY OF YOUR FELLOW LOW-INCOME SENIORS BENEFIT FROM MEDICARE ADVANTAGE ...
Nearly Half Of Seniors Like You On Medicare Advantage Have "Incomes Below $20,000." "Among Medicare beneficiaries in all areas (regardless of whether a Medicare Advantage plan was available), 18 percent were enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. Forty-eight percent of beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage plans had incomes below $20,000. For comparison, 44 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries in the original fee-for-service program had incomes below $20,000."
Medicare Advantage Growing And "Making Extra Benefits Available" To More Of Your Fellow Seniors. "The relatively generous payment system for Medicare Advantage has encouraged greater plan participation in recent years, significantly expanding the number of private plans offered throughout the country and making extra benefits available to more beneficiaries."
BUT OBAMA'S CUTS TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE WILL REDUCE YOUR HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
Your Medicare Advantage Program Is Obama's Top Target When It Comes To Paying For His Health Care Experiment. "The biggest savings he proposes, $177 billion, would come from having insurance companies bid for government reimbursements for offering private plans, known as Medicare Advantage, to senior citizens."
- Obama Blasts Medicare Advantage As "Costly And Redundant." "About 10.2 million Medicare recipients are in Medicare Advantage ... the government pays insurers a set amount per Medicare beneficiary. Obama ridiculed it as costly and redundant ...."
And Obama's Cuts To Medicare Advantage Will Reduce Your Benefits. "Mr. Obama has repeatedly said, ‘Nobody is talking about cutting Medicare benefits.' At the same time, he wants to eliminate what he describes as ‘unwarranted subsidies' and giveaways to private Medicare Advantage plans, which use some of the money to provide extra benefits."
Ah, I see. Yes, this is something to be concerned about for sure. The GOP have caught the Democrats trying to cut back on some wasteful, redundant programs in the federal government and are duly alerting the senior citizens that some of these proposed Medicare decreases could adversely affect their medical care.
Although, now, to be fair, this does raise a rather important question that needs to be addressed.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you kidding me? Seriously? I got pissed off before when the Democrats were the ones that had no policy except for "the opposite of what Bush wants" and now I'm doubly pissed off that it appears to be the GOP's plan.
Is this really what the Republican party is about? Is it? Are we in favor now of more Medicare? When it's proposed that the scope of the federal government be lessened (even if it is possibly a preamble to enlargening - though that won't happen) is it now our job to run to the seniors? Should I be working on the elderly people I know, telling them that President Obama wants them to eat dog food and take away their Medicare? Or is this all just part of a grand plan to confuse the hell out of the AARP?
I'm sorry, this is just stupid. I'd rather the party stood for something and stuck to it than just blindly opposing whatever President Obama suggests and saying whatever nonsense it takes to win.