VP Biden mocks Republicans on Medicare plan, You'd think it was a Republican idea

Source: The Hill

Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday mocked Republicans for acting like they invented Medicare.

If you came from another country and you just listened to their convention, you'd say, those guys came up with a great idea 50 years ago, Biden said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. You'd think it was a Republican idea

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At the campaign rally on Saturday, Biden sought to explain that the program has improved under the Obama administration and that under the president's leadership, we in fact increased benefits, he said. Anybody on Medicare today... ask them. They have more benefits today than they did the week we came into office.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/251135-biden-mocks-republicans-on-medicare

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Biden: Republicans acting like they created Medicare

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/biden-republicans-acting-like-they-created-medicare-136380.html?hp=r4

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Biden also went on the offense against cuts to Medicaid — a health care program for low-income adults that Biden said will also affect senior senior citizens.

This is their plan,Biden said. They knock a total of 19 million people off of Medicaid.

As a result, Biden said, many senior citizens are going to get kicked out of nursing homes.