A Plot to Dismantle Medicare as We Know It?

Sadly, probably not. Check out Heritage and Cato on the freshly-passed drug benefits.

Comments

[R. C. Dean]

Is it just my imagination, or are "expanding" and "dismantling" polar opposites?

[The Merovingian]

More like a plethora of bribes.

[Ruthless]

What JFK did for Cuban relations and RFK did as the forerunner of Ashcroft, Teddy has done for our access to medical care.

[Kevin Carson]

Don't worry, by 2030 $2 trillion will buy you a happy meal.

[StMack]

It's just another example of sleazy politicians using other people's money (MINE) to buy votes.

[Chuck]

R.C. Dean asked:

"Is it just my imagination, or are 'expanding' and 'dismantling' polar opposites?"

Not necessarily. A balloon, when being inflated, expands right up until the moment it "dismantles" itself. Trouble is, said dismantling occurs suddenly and catastrophically.

Lessee, in the year 2030, I will be...uh...68 years old! Better start stocking up on Alpo now, for my retirement.

[Jason Ligon]

Sorry, Chuck. That Alpo has already been designated as part of an entitlement to elderly dogs. You wouldn't want old dogs to starve in the streets, would you?

[StMack]

Chuck,

In the end you'll be better served if you start doing a series of little side jobs on a cash basis and keeping the procedes in a shoe box under your bed. Sure it wont grow anything but dust bunnies but at the end of the day you'l have 100% of what you earned.

Not that I'm advocating tax evasion or anything.

[Chuck]

StMack,

I'm not sure that will help. The govt is digging such a deep hole that the only way out will be to hugely inflate the money supply, and then those $50s and $100s in the shoe box will only be valuable as heating fuel. Maybe the wackos who keep insisting on buying gold have got it right after all. I think I'll go with diamonds, though--that way I can keep my wife happy at the same time.

[Anonymous]

In the end, we will be shooting welfare recipients to keep the cost of entitlement programs down.

How many of your hard-earned tax dollars would be saved if you distributed free Jim Jones Kool-Aide and cookies at the local Food Stamp office?

One hundred dead bodies at a (loaded) rate of about $60k/yr. That's a savings of six million tax dollars a year.

[Ed]

In the end, I think the last poster has it correct. This bill along with the decrease in religious belief will lead to death be a wholly approved and funded medical treatment for minor illnesses in old age.