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Title: Bush's Medicare Drug Benefit Is Dragging The Nation Deeper Into Socialized Medicine
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Editorial
URL Source: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune ... /opinion/archive/s_404751.html
Published: Dec 19, 2005
Author: Editorial
Post Date: 2006-01-02 03:29:04 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: Socialized, Medicare, Dragging
Views: 213
Comments: 3

The Medicare drug benefit: Empty promises

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Editorial
December 19, 2005

The Medicare drug benefit is dragging the nation deeper into socialized medicine. At the same time, it is subsidizing companies that provide retiree drug coverage that is becoming too expensive to bear. A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Hewitt Associates says 79 percent of large companies with prescription coverage for retirees will accept the government handout next year of up to $826 per retiree on average.

Those subsidies are nice sums, courtesy of the American taxpayer. As health-care costs continue rising and employers are squeezed by paying benefits to people off the payroll, there likely will be a trend to dump drug plans.

A vicious cycle is born. Young folks, take note. Your health care coverage will become more expensive in terms of co-pays and payroll contributions. In addition, higher taxes to support the health care of growing numbers of Medicare beneficiaries will hinder you from investing in your own future.

Had this nation made another decision 40 years ago -- by establishing broad tax-advantaged programs so that workers could themselves plan sensibly for retirement -- we would not be seeing pension and health plans workers counted on falling into insolvency.

Instead of correcting that error, the government exacerbates it.

Young workers have not fully experienced the cruelly empty promises of socialism. Trust us, they will.

COMPASSIONATE SOCIALISM: The Ideology Of George W. Bush

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#1. To: OKCSubmariner, christine, robin (#0)

"I'm not sure what the "conservative" movement is. The issue is power versus liberty. In the battle I believe the libertarian worldview is the one most consistently on the side of liberty. Neoconservatives, in my view, are a pernicious force with dismaying influence in the Bush administration. On domestic policy they support big government across the board. They were the ones who created the "faith- based initiative" and talked Bush into supporting the greatest federal intrusion in education in American history. They support a massive welfare state. In foreign affairs they are reckless interventionists. The fiasco in Iraq can be laid at their feet. What we need is an alliance of libertarians, traditional limited government conservatives and those few liberals who still support true civil liberties." - Edward H. Crane

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-01-02   4:04:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

President Bush was in Florida at a grammar school having a photo-op to promote his "No Child Left Behind" initiative when those planes flew into the twin towers. We do not pay George Bush to tell us how to educate our children. Primarily, the president is paid to defend our nation. There is no mention of the word "education" in the Constitution.

That goddamned piece of paper again!

Conflict is the criminals' paradise; it is the only time when killing is allowed, theft is tolerated, and rape is forgiven.
~Ramman Kenoun

robin  posted on  2006-01-02   9:53:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

BTTT

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-13   20:32:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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