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"The GOP's Reality Distortion Field"
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In reference to the GOP debate and how the candidates view Medicare:

1. Health care in general, and Medicare in particular, are bankrupting our country.
2. But government should never try to figure out which treatments are effective.
3. Medicare should pay for any treatment anyone wants, regardless of whether it works or what it costs.
4. If an insurance company refuses to pay for a procedure, that's their right as actors in the free market; if Medicare refuses to pay for a procedure, that's Washington bureaucrats trying to kill you.
5. We need to cut Medicare benefits, because don't forget it's bankrupting our country.

That's about the shape of it: Medicare costs too much, but all proposed cuts to Medicare are a death sentence for seniors. Unless, of course, those cuts are really, really deep and come from Paul Ryan. Don't try to make sense of it. It will just make your head hurt.
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"The GOP's Reality Distortion Field" - by Ted King - 10-12-2011, 05:30 PM

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