Hey Seniors! We All Have To Sacrifice For The Common Good!
CBO says House health care bill hurts seniors
Elections have consequences, even for grandma and grandpa.
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.
The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.
I am sure that the boomers who voted for this administration will happily pay for seniors to receive full Medicare benefits, as we know them today. And of course they will open their homes to aging seniors who cannot find placement in nursing homes. Why, either mom or dad will quit their job to care for the seniors in the home. And they will stop funding both their own retirements and their childrens’ college eduction, because, well, health care can suck up a lot of resources.
This is only fair and I am certain that all of us will gladly do it.
- Aggie