On Dec 18, 4:36*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"DaveS" wrote in message

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But the most insulting disregard of the American people in this whole
health care debate was for the GOP to knowingly pretend that Obama's
attack on medicare fraud, particularly in Florida and Texas, was a
"cut in health care for the elderly."

wait a minute......as a Democrat(entire adult life, ward leader, etc), and
as a supporter of Obama, IMHO, they set themselves up for that.

"They" may or may not have set themselves up for "that" (whoever they
may be and whatever that may be) but what has your allegedly being a
more or less lifelong Democrat (whatever that may mean) got to do with
it (whatever "it" may be)?

Why?

Excellent question. I've used it myself from time to time.

Because
it was presented in an extremely poor fashion.

O.k., sure, but what isn't?

To the VAST majority of the
public, all that was laid out was that they were going to 'reduce' Medicare
costs. Nothing about efficiency or fraud crackdowns, just 'reduce costs'. To
most elderly people(scientific sample: two parents and and Aunt, all in
their 90's, two of whom voted for Obama), this brought on a serious case of
the heebie-jeebies.

Hm.....a proposed reduction in Medicare costs gave your elderly
relatives a serious case of the heebie-jeebies? Um......not to appear
insensitive or anything, but maybe it's time for them to take a nap
(metaphorically speaking) or something.

Like I said, until it can be sold(and damn, it shouldn't be that hard a
sell) to the majority of the voting public that Healthcare should be a
public service, not a for-profit industry, and until the American public can
learn to value different levels of care and show the willingness to manage
their own costs responsibly, we are never going to be able to reform an
out-of-control system that costs WAY too much, per capita.

Anything can be sold. Take, for example, the laughably meaningless
phrase, "manage their own costs responsibly." Reform should be easy
to......oops.....wait a minute.....what is that tapping, as of some
one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door?

Hang on. I'll get back to you.

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