Showing posts with label Government Shutdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Shutdown. Show all posts

Saturday, April 9, 2011

"What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

Great column in The Week. Some important questions it raises:

• Do you really want to replace Medicare with vouchers for private insurance?

• Do you really want to lose guaranteed coverage – and pay more and more for less and less?

• Do you really want to exchange Medicare for a market that puts profits ahead of people?

• Do you really want to slash Medicaid so the sick are left without help in order to lavish tax cuts on the wealthy?

• Do you really want to let Republicans get their budget-cutting hands on your Social Security – because that’s the next target?

• Do you really want to let insurance companies cancel the coverage you paid for across the years once a loved one gets cancer or some other serious illness – and the bills mount up?


Unless you answered 'Yes' to all of these questions, you'll never fully understand what it is the House Republicans are fighting for.