Dick Morris: ObamaCare Will Destroy Medicare, and Shift the Elderly from the Top of the Medical Care Heap to the Bottom

Via Kausfiles, Dick Morris proposes a deadly attack on ObamaCare.

Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access. Indeed, the principal impact of the Obama health care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered.

It is so ironic that the elderly - who were so vigilant when Bush proposed to change Social Security - are so relaxed about the Obama health care proposals. Bush’s Social Security plan, which did not cut their benefits at all, aroused the strongest opposition among the elderly. But Obama’s plan, which will totally gut Medicare and replace it with government-managed care and rationing, has elicited little more than a yawn from most senior citizens.

It’s time for the elderly to wake up before it is too late!

Kaus wonders if conservatives are essentially too principled to make political hay in defending a program most of us aren't (or weren't) strong supporters of.

I can only speak for myself: I can adapt.

posted by Ace at 08:39 PM

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