Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia
If the goal is to save Medicare/Medicaid *and* make it sustainabl e, any changes to should be about *expanding * the program, rather than contractin g that. Single payer health care would *save* this nation a huge amount of money, rather than paying BigPharma, BigIns & BigHospita l CEOs giant salaries for doing not very much.
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Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia
Stop permitting the media and officials to call this a tax cut. It is a reduction in the payroll deduction for Social Security Administration programs. It is not a tax cut, it does not affect the amount withheld for either state of federal income tax. It is a withholdin g reduction, much like reducing your 401K contributi on from 10% to 8%.
Stop letting Obama get away with his careful “payroll tax reduction” smoke and mirrors to cover up the fact that he is the first President since FDR to cut Social Security revenues on a percentage basis.
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Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia
If Obama wants to cut Medicare costs, he needs to open it to all Americans and allow drug price negotiation. These two steps alone will do more to make Medicare solvent than any tinkering around the benefits eligibilit y age or means-test ing, which cuts to the core of the program.
He can’t do that, though, without breaking Rahm’s deal with Big Health, Big Insurance, and Big Pharma.
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Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia
As a former government worker, I can attest to the fact that the PRIVATE sector pays more than the public sector.
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Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia
Reform = cuts
Means-testing is a bad idea because it makes Social Security and Medicare into welfare programs.
Studies have repeatedly shown that social welfare programs and institutions have broader public support *and* are more generous when they are universal rather than focused on the poor. And in fact, once means-test ing begins it’s likely to be followed by a further tightening of who qualifies in the future. It destroys the notion of a social insurance program and it creates new bureaucrac y and paperwork that further discredit public institutio ns.
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It’s pretty astonishing to me that self-descr ibed liberals and progressiv es are willing to trade a temporary stimulus comprised mostly of tax-cuts for permanent cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
The irony here is that the majority of Americans oppose cuts to those programs. So essentially the typical liberal blogger is to the right of the average American.
We should be clear here. This is undisguised class warfare in the guise of a jobs program. Both parties are now resolutely in favor of cutting Medicare despite the bulk of the people standing opposed to it. I know many liberals are gun-shy about initiative s and referendum s because of the California experience , but I would suggest that a popular vote on Medicare would have more progressiv e results than anything that the Super-comm ittee, the Obama administra tion, and Congress will come up with.
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