The bottom line, then, is that the crusade against health reform has relied, crucially, on utter hypocrisy: Republicans who hate Medicare, tried to slash Medicare in the past, and still aim to dismantle the program over time, have been scoring political points by denouncing proposals for modest cost savings — savings that are substantially smaller than the spending cuts buried in their own proposals.
via www.nytimes.com
I heard Paul Ryan, the GOP genius behind the party's latest effort to destroy Medicare, the other night on NPR.
He tries to pass the voucher plan for Medicare off like they're giving people "choice" to find the best plans. What idiocy. They simply want to isolate this program and drive it into the ground.
Thank goodness someone like Krugman is out there to speak out against this idiocy.
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