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The issue is NOT about money, no matter what the Regressives tell you. The issue is about "everything for the Republicans" and nothing for the poor, women, minorities. They want to cut Medicare/Medicaid because those are not money making programs, no insurance company really can benefit as much as it can in the private sector. The programs themselves set the prices, Dr.s and insurance hate that.
In fact, the Regressive talking points recently have been all about having programs "like" the Medicare Part D Drug program,which is horrendously expensive because drug companies set the pricing mechanism. Same with Part B of Medicare's "Gap Insurance". Private insurance, sky high rates.
Keep in mind that we COULD afford Medicare, Medicaid, and even higher Soc. Sec. payments if the government had not taken all of our tax money and given it away to FOREIGN banks, and to banksters, via TARP, and to the Military Industrial Complex ( MIC) via oil/resource driven wars that make a profit for private companies. Same thing that has been done for decades, really, but now on a faster schedule, to compete with China and Russia for those dwindling resources.
EOM
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