Will seniors sit still for half a trillion dollars in Medicare c...

Courtesy Donklephant  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:53am

Seniors: One super-voting bloc politicians mess with at their peril

For months now, it’s been clear that the road to “deficit neutral” health care reform is a bumpy, maybe even dangerous, one for seniors.

Ironically, in their zeal to extend health insurance to the roughly 40 million people who don’t have any, President Obama and many Democrats in Congress appear ready to make deep cuts in Medicare, a program that is...



 

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