Santorum Dis-Respects Medicare, Romney Still Against Medicare

Santorum Blasts Medicare

You must read this from NCPSSM:  Santorum Describes Social Security & Medicare Beneficiaries as Drug Addicts Needing a “Dime Bag”  --  "As we have said before, it’s long past time that primary voters start asking Presidential candidates very specific questions about their plans for Social Security and Medicare.  So far, voters have been treated to a lot of Orwellian double-speak offered by candidates who say 'reform' when they mean 'cut' and 'preserve' when they mean 'privatize.'”

"While GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has made his views on Social Security and Medicare clearer than most -- he wants to slash both -- we found a video this week that offers a terrifying view of what Santorum really thinks about America’s seniors, the disabled, survivors and their families.  He sees them as nothing more than drug addicts."

This is perhaps one of the worst assaults against American values that you'll ever see.  Medicare and Social Security are not addicting; they are pre-paid public benefits.  We can't help but ask how someone becomes so misguided.  Maybe the most conservative of Republicans are simply paranoid who see sinister motives behind every government program , or maybe they are home grown terrorists.

Desperate Romney Attacks Medicare

OPINION:  "Now that the Republican candidates have agreed on setting back women's health care to the 1950s, Mitt Romney is breaking out of the pack by announcing he'd raise the eligibility age for Medicare.  All the Republican candidates want to eliminate Medicare as we know it and replace it with vouchers for inadequate private insurance.  But now Romney, in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, kicked it up a notch:  He wants people to wait a few more years before they can get GOP's lousy coverage."

"The GOP plan eliminates the Medicare guarantee of affordable coverage and shifts thousands of dollars in medical costs to seniors.  In the first year alone, seniors would be responsible for $6,400 in added out-of-pocket costs."

MORE:  "Romney said his proposals for Medicare and Social Security would begin in 2022, meaning no current or near-retirees would be affected. He also said he favors adjustments to curtail the growth of future benefits for the relatively well-to-do, so 'lower-income seniors would receive the most generous benefits.'"

It's discouraging to see candidates for the office of President make all kinds of ignorant claims about Medicare.  Where's the leadership?  Where's the interest in helping Americans understand their government?  Unfortunately, it's the politics of election or re-election (the craving for power, whether one's own for others who are driving the system) that gets in the way.

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