Clay Bennett for April 05, 2012

Ryan’s got his, the heck with us.

And he fed her guide dog ground glass.

The Greedy Old Party keeps on keeping on.

Greed? Send all of your money to the government, or maybe just to the left side of it, and they’ll take perfect care of you because they know best, right? That’ll take all of the responsibility out of your hands. Then you can breathe a sigh of relief.

Actually not. The AHA places some limits on future growth. From Politifact:In a few cases, the law actually increased Medicare spending to provide more benefits and coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a trusted independent source that analyzes the health care system. For instance, the health care law added money to cover prevention services and to fill a gap for enrollees who purchase prescription drugs through the Medicare Part D program. (That coverage gap is sometimes called the doughnut hole).

Other provisions are designed to reduce future growth in Medicare spending, to encourage the program to operate more efficiently and to improve the delivery and quality of care, in ways including reducing hospital re-admissions. The bill doesn’t take money out of the current Medicare budget but, rather, attempts to slow the program’s future growth, curtailing just over $500 billion in anticipated spending increases over the next 10 years. Medicare spending will still increase, however. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects Medicare spending will reach $929 billion in 2020, up from $499 billion in actual spending in 2009.

So while the health care law reduces the amount of future spending growth in Medicare, the law doesn’t cut Medicare.

For any insurance program to work with less greed and fraud, there needs to be a co-pay. The patient knows when money is being mis-spent and will blow the whistle rather than foot the bill. The pay-your-share concept is premium surcharges for categories of: fat, smoking, alcohol, recreational drugs, and risky behavior.

Sure, gut medicare. The insurance industry won’t keep raising their rates and increasing your co-pay until you can no longer afford their protection racket money. NOT!

ryan budget lives in a fantasy world. cut taxes for the rich and corps, increase taxes for everyone else. cut spending for everything except the military which increases that by billions and billions of dollars, and, pray that everyone doesn’t get old, sick, or has more kids, or there isn’t a major conflict in the future. whatever left that is short let the states would fill those shortfalls. the same states that are in the holes themselves see texas’s 26 billion dollar deficit.

We do need to begin defining: 1. ‘nice to have’; 2. ‘essential’; 3. ‘only the Fed Govt can do this’ 4. ‘Do Not Borrow to do This’…Every govt program $ can be categorized. It is Not ‘all or nothing’. Right now, #4 Should be our focus. Defer spending until we have a balanced budget.

this is just sad. Not just gramma, but little children, babies, the disabled, and medicare doesn’t even now pay for hearing aides!

THese Sarcasm-great men are so generous and caring- end of sarcasm.

And every time, he turns and runs.

Another rant from a Tea-Partier with nothing to back up his claim, but, "Because I SAY so.’

Wow, you are just completely lying again, aren’t you? You must think that if you keep repeating lies over and over ad nauseam that people will believe them. Not on this board, buddy.

You have to love ole righty. The Democrats can’t get past the Republican controlled House and that’s the Democrats fault. In high school, did you play “why are you hitting yourself?” with the smaller kids?

Sorry, I just ignore birthers.