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Originally Posted by Sigaba
By my reading of the article, the president was referring specifically to Medicare and to Medicaid. The headline of the article positions the reader to draw the conclusion you reached.
It seems increasingly evident that the president should have heeded the advice Newt Gingrich gave last summer: to break down the health care reform agenda into eight or nine smaller pieces. As things stand today, the president has lost control of the narrative of health care reform to the point where it is difficult to notice when he's talking about specific elements of the reform package or the whole shebang.
Incidentally, the notion that Medicare and Medicaid will bankrupt America is not new. In his 2007 state of the union address (source is here), Bush the Younger said: |
I agree with you on all points. As you pointed out with Gingrich, they have lumped it all into one big package of 2000 plus pages instead of smaller, easier to digest packages. Considering that 'O' has lost lost his way in this quagmire of paper work, just imagine the nightmare we're all going to live every time we make a visit to the doctor!
As for the headline, my response was a preexisting condition. I have health care insurance and it serves my family well. At present rate the Federal Government is going bankrupt with or without health care reform, I don't want my insurance diluted for a scheme to keep something considered too big too fail on life support.