OH SHIT: Obama’s assault on health care (Obama to propose massive cuts to Medicare and Medicaid?)

[Cali_Democrat]

I don't even know what to say about this.

Obama’s assault on health care
Joseph Kishore
16 September 2011

The Obama administration is preparing to release next week a proposal for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. These cuts will have catastrophic consequences for the American people.

The proposed cuts will be submitted to the congressional “super committee” tasked with finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit-reducing measures. Obama is urging the committee, established by the bill passed August 2 to raise the debt ceiling, to go far beyond its mandate, putting in place cuts that previously would have been considered politically impossible.

The committee itself embodies the anti-democratic nature of the attack on health care being spearheaded by the Obama administration. It is designed to impose massively unpopular measures over the heads of the people.

Among the likely proposals is an increase in the age of eligibility for Medicare and cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. Both these measures, initially proposed by Obama during negotiations over the debt ceiling, will deprive millions of Americans of access to basic health care. The administration also called for changes in the cost of living formula for Social Security that will reduce payments to retirees.

Read more: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/pers-s16.shtml

[YellowCosmicSun]

1. Nope. But that won't stop many from crying wolf.

[TheWraith]

22. And from posting another flurry of links from dung-flinging sites like WSWS.

Which the next time it gets a fact right will be the first. They've been proclaiming how Obama is going to declare fascism tomorrow since six minutes before his inaugural.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Oh FFS....

:eyes:

[Name removed]

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[leftstreet]

4. OMG OMG What is that a Commie newspaper or something?!

:D

Just thought I'd get that out of the way

K&R

[scheming daemons]

5. Um... "World Socialist".... yes.... it might was well be "News of the World" as far as accuracy.

[Name removed]

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[KamaAina]

7. Anything from WSWS is essentially an opinion piece

be advised.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. WSWS is a fantastic website

Very informative. They've been right about pretty much everything. From the endless wars to illegal wiretapping and election fraud. They are definitely on point.

[MineralMan]

11. Misspelled: Should be WSWS is a fantasy website.

There...that's better.

[cali]

16. fantastic being the key word here. As in unbelievable.

they've been right about very little and they flat out lie. they're agenda driven even more than the Wall Street Journal. Really it's more akin to World Nut Daily than any other outlet.

[gateley]

13. I agree with leftstreet, scheming daemons -- Cali_Democrat

is a good guy, the troll remark was pretty mean. And unwarranted.

[trueblue2007]

23. doesn't seem like a good guy to me

[gateley]

24. Regardless, hinting that a long-time DUer is troll-ish isn't

right, IMO.

There are lots of people here I don't consider "good guys", but I'd never use the word troll in a comment about their post.

We're supposed to be on the same team. Why can't we just honestly criticize another's choice of post or choice of reference rather than attacking the DUer?

[Cali_Democrat]

26. I'm really a very nice person

I'm sure you are as well. :hi:

[Cali_Democrat]

27. Thanks gately!

:hi:

[cali]

15. it's a piece of shit unreliable newspaper. that's the problem.

[sufrommich]

9. From the Ministry of Disinformation. Unrec. nt

[MineralMan]

10. Unattributed Obama-bashing, as usual.

No, thank you very much.

[SidDithers]

12. Ahahah. Unrec for wsws...

:rofl:

Thought that "source" went the way of the dodo when Hannah Bell ate pizza. Glad to see some are still keeping the dream alive.

Sid

[cali]

17. you have to be completely idealogically blinded

to swallow most of the, er, stuff that WSD prints.

[Cali_Democrat]

18. Are we not allowed to post articles from WSWS?

Is it against the rules or something?

[SidDithers]

19. No rule against it...

just as there's no rule against laughing at the stuff posted from it.

Sid

[cali]

14. worldsocialistnutdaily. sorry, this is not a reliable souce.

[dionysus]

20. unrec for bogus source.

[hedgehog]

21. High spending on Medicare/medicaid is not the same as delivering high

quality care to those dependent on Medicare/Medicaid. If money is being siphoned off somewhere between the patient and the government, and Obama finds a way to stop people from profiteering, then he can cut spending without cutting care. In fact, there may be room to improve care while saving money.

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. Sounds like he's just going after the BIG PHARMA...read this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1952777