Saturday, September 26, 2009

O proved wrong on keeping what you have...

and that seniors won't bear burden of cuts:

(from NRO): Krauthammer on the CBO saying that Medicare Advantage would be cut under current health-care legislation:

"The president has said: “If you like what you have, you keep it.” The problem is that, as you said, a quarter of seniors have this [Medicare Advantage] instead of the regular Medicare, and they like it.

"A lot of them are poor, and the reason that they like it is it is a trade-off. There is a little bit of a restriction on who your doctor can be. However, you get benefits that the poor … can't otherwise purchase it.

"So the president has said on television on Sunday, it will make no difference if they take it [Medicare Advantage] away. Once again the CBO — impartial — rides in and shoots an arrow right through Obama's promise.

"It says that if you have Medicare advantage and it's abolished you will lose half of the benefits. So you are not going to keep what you have.

"That's the original sin of the Obama [health-care] proposal. At the beginning, it said you're going to get a free lunch. We're going to expand the coverage at no cost. You cannot do it. Somebody has to pay, and here it is going to be seniors.

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