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Report1212

(661 posts)
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 12:42 PM Feb 2013

Nancy Pelosi: Seniors won't "evaporate from the face of the earth," don't raise Medicare age!



PELOSI: Those people are not going to evaporate from the face of the earth for two years, they’re going to have medical needs and they’re going to be attended to. And the earlier the intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life. I do think we should subject every federal dollar that is spent to the harshest scrutiny. I do think the challenge in Medicare is not Medicare it’s health care costs in general. [...] There is money to be saved there, I don’t think it has to come out of benefits or beneficiaries, and I don’t think you have to raise the age.

Read more, watch it: http://boldprogressives.org/video-nancy-pelosi-rejects-the-idea-of-raising-the-medicare-age-to-67/
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Nancy Pelosi: Seniors won't "evaporate from the face of the earth," don't raise Medicare age! (Original Post) Report1212 Feb 2013 OP
people approaching 65 are hanging on by their fingernails waiting for the day they can start CTyankee Feb 2013 #1
Especially people 45-64 Report1212 Feb 2013 #2
that just happened a year ago to my friend's husband. He developed an inoperative CTyankee Feb 2013 #3
yes shanti Feb 2013 #4
Nancy, you lost ANY credibility on this issue when you supported Chained CPI two months ago. If forestpath Feb 2013 #5

CTyankee

(63,768 posts)
1. people approaching 65 are hanging on by their fingernails waiting for the day they can start
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:51 PM
Feb 2013

getting it.

Joe Scar was particularly vomitous today when he went after Pelosi. I think he knows that the cat is out of the bag on what he and other repukes are trying to do to Medicare: Death by a thousand cuts.

He's losing this argument and he knows it. He's getting REAL pissy about it, too...

CTyankee

(63,768 posts)
3. that just happened a year ago to my friend's husband. He developed an inoperative
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 03:03 PM
Feb 2013

malignant brain tumor at 64 and was slowly dying. By the time he reached 65 he was at death's door and was barely on Medicare when he finally died.

shanti

(21,670 posts)
4. yes
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 03:11 PM
Feb 2013

that's basically when the shit hits the fan, imo. never wore glasses until i was 45, then pow! after that, it's been a steady stream of "things".

 

forestpath

(3,102 posts)
5. Nancy, you lost ANY credibility on this issue when you supported Chained CPI two months ago. If
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 03:14 PM
Feb 2013

you're OK with cutting their SS benefits, then you're OK with hurting them, PERIOD.

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