Hope Seniors Voting GOP Will Like Their Useless Voucher With Medicare.

[TheMastersNemesis]

No question about vouchers for seniors will be a death sentence for many. That is because most seniors will lose their access to health care. The voucher won't even come close to present Medicare coverage and with huge copays many seniors will not have money to pay for it. Worse yet if insurance companies being able to reject for pre existing condition as the GOP wants there won't be an insurance company in the universe who will insure a senior citizen.

The only hope is that Obama and Dems stand their ground on the GOP budgetary plans. We all know the GOP should be in the scap heap of history because they are systematically destroying this nation one piece at a time. With the GOP who needs ISIS or the terrorists. They have already done enough damage.

At every turn they keep putting up vouchers which are a scam.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The proposal does not apply to people who are currently getting Medicare.

So people who are now getting it wouldn't lose it. So, to what extent would GOPer senior citizens vote to abolish Medicare for people who aren't eligible for it yet?

[stillwaiting]

8. #Ivegotminefuckyou <----It's the Republican Way (for way too many).

Rush/Hannity/O'Really will convince them that they have to eliminate Medicare the way it's currently structured for future senior citizens because of the evil liberals like Obama who have spent us into a debt so large that we just can't afford it anymore. There will be one very important point to all of this: It is the LIBERALS fault that we can't afford Medicare. It is NOT the Republicans fault for they are holy and doing God's work.

They'll eat it right up like they always do.

Simultaneously: "We have to cut taxes more for the rich and Big Business. Yes, we are giving more money, wealth, and future resources to the already wealthy, and we are taking away money, wealth, and future resources from everyone else, but I'm sure you folks understand." <------ And they will. Yes, they will understand. They will listen to their "betters".

Tax and spend liberals are the problem in America!!

Even though the deficit goes way up under Republican Administrations and way down during Democratic Administrations.

[shraby]

2. That's telling it like it is! The goop is nothing but a bunch of scam artists.

[appalachiablue]

3. Tell it! The nightmare truth absolutely. Destroyers of the US. No senior with a pre-existing

condition in this sick, toxic country? No way. These rabid, dangerous and mind dead fools do not know what misery is in store for them and all of us. Heaven help us.

[HeiressofBickworth]

4. Reminds me of corporate America

Workers no longer considered an asset but a liability. Corporations adopted the "lean & mean" economic style which resulted in lay-offs throughout all industries. For example, see the dead steel plants in the mid-west -- those jobs went to China where workers can be had for a pittance with no requirement for health care or other benefits. Appliances are made in Mexico -- again, low wages and no benefits.

Translated to Medicare, this means removing the retired people whose health care requirements constitute liabilities. Going for that "lean & mean" style again. Legislators who could prevent this are not personally invested in the die-off as they will have government supported health insurance for the rest of their pitiful, worthless lives. Rep. Grayson said it best -- if you get sick, die quick. The Republican health care plan.

I'm retired and on Medicare. I had a lengthy and expensive health crisis in 2013-4. Without Medicare, I would either be broke without a place to live or dead. Either way, since I have family living with me, my family would have no place to live. With Medicare, I had great health care and I survived. Although I have continuing issues, I'm stable and functional. And I'm not homeless or broke. Nor is my family. This is the kind of insurance and care that everyone should have.

[ND-Dem]

6. glad you're still with us and you and your family are still stable.

[HeiressofBickworth]

7. Thank you!

I used to work as a bankruptcy paralegal so I've seen what happens when people have massive health care debt. My first client was a guy whose wife had a heart attack. The debt was huge, even after his insurance paid. He lost his house, car, other assets, and the saddest part, his wife didn't make it. He was employed with union insurance and this still happened to him. He was devastated on all sides. I never forgot that case and that was back in the early 1970's.

Dare I dream? As President Obama's last official act in office, he should sign an Executive Order lowering the age of Medicare to pre-natal -- cradle to grave.

[ND-Dem]

5. "they are systematically destroying this nation" = +100