Bush, after 'phase out' comment, says Medicare needs reform
Source: USA Today
Jeb Bush, under fire from Democrats for saying he would phase out Medicare, said Thursday the program has to be reformed because of unsustainable costs in the long run.
Its an actuarially unsound health care system, Bush told the crowd at a town hall in New Hampshire, adding that $50 trillion dollars of debt has been accrued and if we do nothing, thats the burden that were going to place on your children and grandchildren.
Bush spoke a day after making Medicare comments at another town hall: We need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system that allows them to have something because theyre not going to have anything.
Democrats pounced on the phase out comment, saying Bush wants to gut the old age health insurance program that has been around for half a century.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Same as a few weeks ago, I didn't hear that people who want more than part-time work should be able to work more, I heard that we peons all "need to work longer hours" to be more productive. He is as gaffe-tastic as his brother.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Which is "reform".
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)This guy may be more dangerous than any in the GOP field, including Cruz, Walker, et al. Plus, he loves war, except for his family.
"We need to make sure we fulfill the commitment to people that have already received the benefits, that are receiving the benefits," Bush said.
Anything there about those close to receiving the benefits? No!
No more Bushes!!
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)James Ellis BUSH is declining (losing?) in the polls, so he's clutching at straws to try to regain popularity among the Repuke base.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)and find he want to reform their medicare
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)they vote against their own interests like so many repubs do?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Do you really think there aren't people older than you who are members here?
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Most influential rethugs are aging old farts.
This old gal is not in the least offended because I know that too many of my southern peers are idiots.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)What needs to be "phased out" is the retirement plans, and medical coverage of the millionaires who retire from politics. His father will live to be 110 with the Cadillac insurance he has, plus the generous pension from TAXPAYERS. Why are we saddled paying pensions, plus yearly increases to millionaires, who lined their pockets screwing taxpayers during their terms? The worst president EVER (W) now pgets $400,000 a year, plus a million more for office expenses, He gives speeches, which are closed to journalists, with fees of up to $250,000. Even bland, boring Laura charges $50,000 a speech, plus private jet travel expenses. I worked 25 years at the same company, my pension is $400 a month, no healthcoverage. No raises, it will be the same for the rest of my life. I am glad to get it, but why do these crooks retire in luxury, after not even working a full week, going on vacations paid for by lobbyists. Rember Trent Lott? He said he could not remember EVER paying for his own lunch while he was in office!!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)because young people would be paying into it.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)debt, and then come up with a cooperative program, maybe a single-payer sort of thing, or maybe even just health care because it is the smart thing for a nation to do? Take it out of the hands of health insurance companies who only take a profit and add nothing of value, out of the hands of the billionaires who suck excess profit from Oxycontin and other pharmaceuticals.
Put it back in the hands of working people.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)how about shifting it back to the very wealthy and corporations?
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Stick to your guns. I'd have more respect for you if you did. Scum.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I meant "save"!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)to say I am 76 years old, I vote, I like Medicare.
Please join me.
whathehell
(29,090 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)This gives me an idea to put it in under activism.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)next? Maybe a shot into his genitals? The DEMs will feast on his "mis-speaks".
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)And you'll die when you are older and cannot afford any health care.
Botany
(70,582 posts)"Did I say phase out?" Jeb bush
We need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system .... " Jeb bush
Astraea
(468 posts)and higher and higher deductibles are right where it's at.
Fuck you and the silver spoon you rode in on, troll.
DebbieCDC
(2,543 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,589 posts)reformed to pay better and serve more illnesses or conditions, like mental and dental health......
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)was one of the first recipients of medicare. we were shocked when we found it didn't cover eye glasses or new teeth.
ion_theory
(235 posts)with trying to get rid of Medicare. The more he opens his mouth, the better it looks for Walker.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)He can explain to all seniors ehy they should pay for their own health insurance.
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)whathehell
(29,090 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)Absolutely astonishing!
From Bush Family Value$
The Bush clan's family business
By Stephen Pizzo
| Tue Sep. 1, 1992 3:00 AM EDT :
Jeb and Miguel Recarey
With Miami awash in empty office space in 1986, it was no small event when bagged International Medical Centers as a key tenant for Padreda's HUD-financed building. IMC, which leased nearly all the space in Padreda's vacant building, was at the time one of the nation's fastest-growing health-maintenance organizations (HMO) and had become the largest recipient of federal Medicare funds.
IMC was run by Cuban-American Miguel Recarey, a character with a host of idiosyncrasies. He carried a 9-mm Heckler & Koch semiautomatic pistol under his suit coat and kept a small arsenal of AR-15 and Uzi assault rifles at his Miami estate, where his bedroom was protected by bullet-proof windows and a steel door. It apparently wasn't his enemies Recarey feared so much as his friends. He had a long-standing relationship with Miami Mafia godfather Santo Trafficante, Jr., and had participated in the illfated, CIA-inspired mob assassination plot against Fidel Castro in the early 1960s. (Associates of Recarey add that Trafficante was the money behind Recarey's business ventures.)
Recarey's brother, Jorge, also had ties to the CIA. So it was no surprise that IMC crawled with former spooks. Employee résumés were studded with references to the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Cuban Intelligence agency; there was even a fellow who claimed to have been a KGB agent, An agent with the U.S. Office of Labor Racketeering in Miami would later describe IMC as a company in which "a criminal enterprise interfaced with intelligence operations."
Recarey also surrounded himself with those who could influence the political system. He hired Jeb Bush as IMC's "real-estate consultant." Though Jeb would never close a single real-estate deal, his contract called for him to earn up to $250,000 (he actually received $75,000). Jeb's real value to Recarey was not in real estate but in his help in facilitating the largest HMO Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1992/09/bush-family-value
lobodons
(1,290 posts)After all, they are the ones who protested for the Government to keep their hands of their Medicare!!
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)And he forgets that most of the voters are seniors.
I'll bet poppy is on Medicare. I'll bet he just doesn't go buy his own private insurance, because he can....oh no, I'll bet he's on Medicare. Kick off the 1%. Start there Jeb.
whathehell
(29,090 posts)when he was in Congress, and of course, voted against it.