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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think the $716B Mediscare/Obamacare LIE is having a bigger effect than is realized.
On the surface, it really does sound as if they are taking $716 B away from Medicare to pay for Obamacare - i.e., taking money away from seniors and giving it to poor people. I can see why some seniors might be alarmed and even resentful.
Obama needs to tell voters that this is going to be the savings of having insured people not have to use emergency rooms and such, and in no way shape or form will lead to a reduction in medical care for seniors. And, that doctors, hospitals and insurers all agree on this.
To be honest, I don't think the Team Obama has done a good enough job explaining this yet.
JuveDem
(69 posts)more than Romney. I do agree though that the message should be more direct
msongs
(67,443 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)listen to gop campaign ads and believe fact-checkers have a liberal bias. IOW, gop voters.
nykym
(3,063 posts)viewpoint...Yes they robbed Medicare, they took away all the illegal duplicate and over-payments to the hospitals & insurance companies.
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Drab
(54 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)my 88 year old, decidedly apolitical, mother asked me about the claim. Before answering her, I asked what she thought. She said, "Obamacare cut my prescription costs and my medicare premiums are about the same, so if he took the $716 million (see was not certain of the number) and gave it to Obamacare, wouldn't it be a wash?"
reformist2
(9,841 posts)in the past month. And I can't help but wonder if it's not because of this Medicare/Obamacare money issue.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)This one for Florida (below) shows a pretty clear "flip" from Obama being +4 over Romney to now being -2. The latest poll is encouraging, though. But still, I hate to see a state which was so clearly for Obama before slipping away from us.
http://electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Graphs/florida.html
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Florida does have a large elderly population, and a large misinformed population. Its possible the message hasn't been made entirely clear. I don't think explaining it would swing the votes of the idiots in The Villages, but it might in the I-4 corridor.