Suppose you're BushCo and you want to take a meat axe to Medicaid...

Junkdrawer

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:20 PM
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Suppose you're BushCo and you want to take a meat axe to Medicaid...

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 01:22 PM by Junkdrawer

Now, end-of-life-care costs are huge and will explode as Boomers reach those "Golden Years". It's the obvious place to start, but, damn, your political base in comprised of Right-To-Life Fundies.

So, how to get the other side to champion the cuts? How to get the other side to recognized the inhumanity of prolonging death?

:think:

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papau

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:24 PM
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1. See Gov Bush 99 LAW to kill the poor via Hospital Com vote as the

way he would go to "save" medicare.

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Ilsa

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:24 PM
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2. I thought maybe he was trying to bust Medicaid

by having everyone kept alive artificially, the same way he's spending the country broke.

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Junkdrawer

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Mon Mar-21-05 02:00 PM
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3. I think I'm right about this one...

This is a huge problem and it will only get worse.

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Wilms

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Mon Mar-21-05 03:29 PM
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4. kick n/t

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