Pierce writes: "My Walk To Work, November 11, 2016: Part Two. Every few
days, when I walk to the BlogCave, I stop at a local McDonald's for one of
their Triglyceride Festival breakfasts. Every time I've done this, there has
been a table full of elderly gents sitting at the same table by the side
door."
President Barack Obama. (photo: Getty Images)
The Republican Healthcare Plan: Gut Medicare and Blame Obama
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
12 November 16
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Paul Ryan.
My Walk To Work, November 11, 2016: Part Two.
Every few days, when I walk to the BlogCave, I stop at a local McDonald's
for one of their Triglyceride Festival breakfasts. Every time I've done
this, there has been a table full of elderly gents sitting at the same table
by the side door. (Yeah, elderly. They're older than me.) All of them wear
baseball caps. One of them always wears a cap that marks him as a "Vietnam
Veteran." Sometime last summer, I noticed that a couple of them had taken to
wearing those familiar red baseball caps that told the world that the
elderly gents were ready to Make American Great Again. Presumably, most of
these guys, if not all of them, benefit from Medicare.
Gentlemen? May I introduce you to Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver
from the state of Wisconsin? Jonathan Chait in New York would like to
explain to you all how you are about to get bamboozled into a worse life
than you have right now.
"Your solution has always been to put things together, including entitlement
reform," says Baier, using Republican code for privatizing Medicare. Ryan
replies, "If you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to
address those issues as well. . Medicare has got some serious issues because
of Obamacare. So those things are part of our plan to replace Obamacare."
Yep. That's what's going to happen to your healthcare, gentlemen. And he's
going to blame the black guy for it, and my money's all on you guys buying
that wholesale. It is, of course, a blatant lie, because Paul Ryan is
the.say it with us now.Biggest. Fake. Ever.
The Medicare trust fund has been extended 11 years as a result of the
passage of Obamacare, whose cost reforms have helped bring health care
inflation to historic lows. It is also untrue that repealing Obamacare
requires changing traditional Medicare. But Ryan clearly believes he needs
to make this claim in order to sell his plan, or probably even to convince
fellow Republicans to support it.
One of the few positions on which the President-elect was marginally
consistent during the campaign was that he would not touch entitlements.
However, his economic plan was so stuffed with vague nonsense that I am
fairly sure this is what's going to happen: Ryan will come up with some
bullshit "stimulus" program that is larded with tax-cuts and other goodies,
and he will offer it to the White House in exchange for his life's dream of
shredding what's left of the social safety net. He will put together a big
pot of offal, slap a label reading "Medicare" on it, and then peddle it to
the suckers.
The guys at McDonald's will find themselves choosing between cat food and
insulin and it will be Barack Obama's fault. Lovely.
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The Republican Healthcare Plan: Gut Medicare and Blame Obama
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
12 November 16
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Paul Ryan.
y Walk To Work, November 11, 2016: Part Two.
Every few days, when I walk to the BlogCave, I stop at a local McDonald's
for one of their Triglyceride Festival breakfasts. Every time I've done
this, there has been a table full of elderly gents sitting at the same table
by the side door. (Yeah, elderly. They're older than me.) All of them wear
baseball caps. One of them always wears a cap that marks him as a "Vietnam
Veteran." Sometime last summer, I noticed that a couple of them had taken to
wearing those familiar red baseball caps that told the world that the
elderly gents were ready to Make American Great Again. Presumably, most of
these guys, if not all of them, benefit from Medicare.
Gentlemen? May I introduce you to Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver
from the state of Wisconsin? Jonathan Chait in New York would like to
explain to you all how you are about to get bamboozled into a worse life
than you have right now.
"Your solution has always been to put things together, including entitlement
reform," says Baier, using Republican code for privatizing Medicare. Ryan
replies, "If you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to
address those issues as well. . Medicare has got some serious issues because
of Obamacare. So those things are part of our plan to replace Obamacare."
Yep. That's what's going to happen to your healthcare, gentlemen. And he's
going to blame the black guy for it, and my money's all on you guys buying
that wholesale. It is, of course, a blatant lie, because Paul Ryan is
the.say it with us now.Biggest. Fake. Ever.
The Medicare trust fund has been extended 11 years as a result of the
passage of Obamacare, whose cost reforms have helped bring health care
inflation to historic lows. It is also untrue that repealing Obamacare
requires changing traditional Medicare. But Ryan clearly believes he needs
to make this claim in order to sell his plan, or probably even to convince
fellow Republicans to support it.
One of the few positions on which the President-elect was marginally
consistent during the campaign was that he would not touch entitlements.
However, his economic plan was so stuffed with vague nonsense that I am
fairly sure this is what's going to happen: Ryan will come up with some
bullshit "stimulus" program that is larded with tax-cuts and other goodies,
and he will offer it to the White House in exchange for his life's dream of
shredding what's left of the social safety net. He will put together a big
pot of offal, slap a label reading "Medicare" on it, and then peddle it to
the suckers.
The guys at McDonald's will find themselves choosing between cat food and
insulin and it will be Barack Obama's fault. Lovely.
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