Bush Opposes Extending Medicare Deadline

[Judi Lynn]

Bush Opposes Extending Medicare Deadline

By Cameron W. Barr and Bill Brubaker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, March 15, 2006; 3:51 PM

President Bush said today that the government should not extend the May 15 deadline for senior citizens to sign up for the Medicare prescription drug plan, a program that has been strongly criticized because many senior citizens find it confusing and much too complicated to use.

Seniors who join the voluntary program after May 15 face higher premiums -- 1 percent higher for every month they delay signing up. Many Democrats and health care advocacy groups say millions of seniors have not signed up because they are unable to sort through the dozens of choices that are available.

"There's got to be fixed time for people to sign up," Bush said today after a speech in Silver Spring, responding to a question by a woman who said her mother was having trouble signing up for the program. "Rolling back good deadlines is not going to help your mom make a good decision."

The comments marked Bush's second attempt in two days to assure Medicare enrollees that problems plaguing the 10-week-old drug program are being addressed and that seniors are already saving money on their prescriptions.
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[Bob3]

1. ah what a warm human touch he has.

piss on him from a great height.

[mattclearing]

2. "Rolling back good deadlines is not going to help your mom make a good

decision."

What an asshole.

Someone needs to make that into a campaign ad.

[uppityperson]

5. that is quite a quote.

Rolling back deadlines so you can get your mom the help she needs will help. How about getting the system fixed so your mom won't be so confused.

[Atman]

3. Al Franken exposed one of his many Medicare lies today

He played tape of Bush saying that 26,000,000 seniors "have looked at the program and decided to enroll." In FACT, only 5,000,000 have done so VOLUNTARILY. The remainder were placed into various prescription programs.

Bush simply cannot tell the truth if his very life depended upon it.

[WinkyDink]

8. And I wish his life did.

[Sal316]

4. Translation...

"Screw you, you grey haired biddys!"

I tell ya, tho, seniors are the one voting bloc you do NOT want to piss off.

[UpInArms]

6. I wonder if the lobbyists that wrote that piece of crap have anything

like this on tape?

Caught On Tape

"They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, grandma Millie, man"

"Yeah, now she wants her f------g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a------ for f------g $250 a megawatt hour."

<snip>

"When this election comes Bush will f------g whack this s--t, man. He won't play this price-cap b------t."

Crude, but true.

"We will not take any action that makes California's problems worse and that's why I oppose price caps," said Mr. Bush on May 29, 2001.

Both the Justice Department and Enron tried to prevent the release of these tapes.

[Rex]

7. Bush to the nation - old people die faster without medical coverage.

Not that his pampered ass would know anything about trying to survive. Fucking bubble boy.

[WinkyDink]

9. His word choices---good", "your mom"---show his utter contempt.

[Rose Siding]

10. Cold.

How does "trouble signing up" indicate the lack of a "good decision"?

[Vinca]

11. He's such a total, utter asshole.

My husband noticed that when Shrub speaks about poor and middle class people he calls us "folks." Wealthy people are "citizens." I guess old people are "toast."

[flordehinojos]

12. BUSH IS AN ASS!