MediScare
September 28, 2009 - by
Life and politics are full of irony. Like health-care reform.
One of the great obstacles to a “public option” is the fear of “government-run health care.”
One voter group most worried about reform are seniors. Specifically, they worry that reform will jeopardize Medicare.
That is, they fear that government-run health care will threaten their government-run health care.
If Medicare is so great, and all my (somewhat) older friends say it is, what’s wrong with Medicare for everybody?
For that matter, what’s wrong with Republicans doing what we Democrats have done so well for so long: Scare seniors?
We’ve won older voters election after election by telling them Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare.
Now it looks like we get to wear the scary mask.
MediScare
September 28, 2009/
Life and politics are full of irony. Like health-care reform.
One of the great obstacles to a “public option” is the fear of “government-run health care.”
One voter group most worried about reform are seniors. Specifically, they worry that reform will jeopardize Medicare.
That is, they fear that government-run health care will threaten their government-run health care.
If Medicare is so great, and all my (somewhat) older friends say it is, what’s wrong with Medicare for everybody?
For that matter, what’s wrong with Republicans doing what we Democrats have done so well for so long: Scare seniors?
We’ve won older voters election after election by telling them Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare.
Now it looks like we get to wear the scary mask.