Bush Takes Aim At Medicare, Medicaid

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Bush_takes_aim_at_Medicare_Medicaid_02042008.html

Budget Would Freeze Medicare Payments for Most Health Care Providers

KEVIN FREKING
AP News

Feb 04, 2008 16:07 EST

President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere.



Over the next five years, the president would reduce by $196 billion the two entitlement programs that provide most of the medical care for the nation's elderly and poor. He would achieve most of the savings in the budget blueprint he submitted Monday by freezing the rates Medicare pays for hospital, nursing home and hospice services for the next three years.

[shraby]

1. Meanwhile he and that war monger he calls

a v.p. get the best of care all paid by taxes. ptoui

[southern_belle]

2. kick

[frebrd]

3. If I didn't know...

it would get me in trouble one way or another, I would say:

{guote} Won't somebody please off this bastard?{/quote}

But since I know it would get me in trouble, I won't say that.

:banghead:

[Cleita]

4. I'm not surprised. How typical of the Republicans to

attack the needy and least able to fight back. Also, if this doesn't get the geezers who voted for him to jump the aisle and vote for a Democrat, nothing will. Methinks he is pissing off a demographic the Republicans can't afford to lose.

[DCKit]

6. Then we need to shove this in their faces at every opportunity.

Tell them over and over and over "The Republicans don't care about the elderly, they don't care about children, they don't care about America and they're shitting on the Constitution."

[1776Forever]

5. Let your Representative's know that you don't want the lest of these to be Bush next victims!!

Get up - Stand up - Don't give up the fight!!!!!!

The next person you saved could be yourself or someone you love!!!!!!!!!

O8)

[anitar1]

8. Siphoning More money for his Pet War,

I read that he is cutting many social programs--did not know there was much left to eliminate. Dirty Sucker.

[fascisthunter]

7. Like Bush Taking Money out of a Homeless Person's Pockets

"Give that to me.... we need to keep this war goin'. Besides, your gonna die livin' like this."