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Further From The Truth?

by: Mike Hoefer

Tue May 10, 2011 at 08:56:08 AM EDT
Which one is further from the truth?

Recently, outside special interest groups have started a campaign to tell seniors in New Hampshire that I voted to "end Medicare" and turn it into a "voucher" program.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and it is unfortunate that some are using political scare tactics to try and derail a debate before it has even begun.
-- Charles F. Bass, Sentinel and other outlets

...are beginning to waver on one of the centerpieces of his plan, which is the idea of a major overhaul of Medicare and turning it into a voucher system.
-- Chris Wallace, Fox News

The future of Medicare has again become a political hot potato in light of a Republican plan to dismantle the government-run program and replace it with a voucher system
-- AARP

...but also end the existing Medicare program for Americans 55 or younger, replacing it with a voucher (or premium-support) system in which government would provide seniors a stipend to buy private insurance.
--Ronald Brownstien, National Journal

Nothing could be further from the truth, except the truth apparently.
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There's nothing to debate, if there's to be no change. (0.00 / 0)
Just got a robo call from Frankie for a telephonic senior free town hall.  Before I could stop myself, I hung up.  I do that with robo calls.

Shucks!  Missed a chance to talk to Frankie himself.

What's happening (0.00 / 0)
with Frankie's mystery money con?  Has that all been forgotten and forgiven?
I believe NHDP has taken to calling him (0.00 / 0)
Frank "What's in the Bank" Guinta.

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Being hoist on their own petard. Republicans insisted on referring to (4.00 / 1)
Medicare as a government run program, which it isn't.  It's a centralized funding or book-keeping system which, every corporate entity would agree, is more efficient than letting departments keep their own books and pay their own bills. But now, when they are proposing to hand the book-keeping over to private sector accountants, another layer of middlemen, middlemen being the primary wealth accumulators for conservatives, they can't admit that it's just about the money. The health myths they themselves created are being used against them.  To refute what's being attributed to them, they'd have to admit they lied before.
It was about the money then and it's about the money now. but that's not going to have popular appeal because the users of Medicare know that, if it's about the money, they're going to end up paying more out of pocket.  And nobody wants that.

Then too, we might make the point that the best voucher there is is the dollar.  A proposal to invent new vouchers is a proposal to create a substitute for the dollar.  Why would we want that?  Why Wall Street would want that is pretty clear because, just as they get rich from issuing plastic (credit or debit cards), they expect to get rich off health care vouchers, the modern version of green stamps. Vouchers are sort of a local currency, easier to manipulate than dollars, which have international usage.  
Health care vouchers are like green stamps.  Education vouchers, too.  They're the tools of monopolists.

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