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Kuster: "voucher system sets up an unstable, hurtful and discriminatory system for seniors."

by: Jack Mitchell

Mon May 23, 2011 at 15:01:06 PM EDT
File under, "calls 'em like she sees 'em."

Bass not being candid about Medicare vote

This private mandate and voucher system sets up an unstable, hurtful and discriminatory system for seniors. In essence, the only element it keeps from our current successful program is the name "Medicare."

At town hall meetings across New Hampshire in the days after the vote, Bass defended his vote by attempting to argue that his plan relied on "premium support systems," not "vouchers." It was Washington-speak from his partisan leadership's talking points - and we flinty constituents in New Hampshire are not buying it.
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But ending Medicare as we know it in order to make room for corporate tax breaks?

No way. That's not the America I want to pass on to my sons. It's not the country that Nanny worked hard for her whole life, nor the country that is looking out for her now. We can do better.

This stuff gets me charged up. I'm stoked to go to the 2011 McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner.
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Jack Mitchell :: Kuster: "voucher system sets up an unstable, hurtful and discriminatory system for seniors."
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Kuster: "voucher system sets up an unstable, hurtful and discriminatory system for seniors." | 3 comments
Emperor decrees borders open n/t (4.00 / 2)


note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
*Phew* (4.00 / 2)
Being South of the toll booths helps.

They add up to a beer, y'know.

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

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When you come right down to it, the dollar is a voucher. It attests to (0.00 / 0)
the fact that there's an obligation which has been created, via the delivery of either a good or service, and that this obligation will be honored by whoever is capable of providing appropriate compensation.  Setting up a different or segregated voucher system for the elderly or indigent (vide food stamps) is to either devalue the normal system or exclude the recipients of this new currency from normal participation.
The impulse to segregate is apparently very strong. The thinking here seems to be that if the elderly can't be segregated from receiving appropriate public services, then the method of paying for them can. So, like the recipients of housing "allowances" or "subsidies," people can be segregated indirectly.  Vouchers are a signal of subservience--i.e. that someone else is deciding how much medical care a person gets.
Money, in the hands of man, is a multi-purpose instrument.  On the one hand, it can promote egalitarian intercourse, erasing all distinctions between individuals; on the other hand, by being withheld, money can serve as the instrument of separation and segregation without leaving a personal trace. People can be shut out of normal social intercourse by the simple act of denying them access to money. Vouchers, are a new kind of money, designed to pacify, not unlike the sugar tit or "high fructose corn syrup" in modern parlance.
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