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"I agreed point by point with Dana until it came to his statement that "Democrats have been nearly as reckless in resisting real reforms to entitlements." Dammit, the Affordable Health Care Act is based on cutting Medicare's costs by more than half a trillion dollars. True, that won't start until 2014, when it ought to have started far earlier, but it is a great deal more than a gesture. And Milbank is not justified in forgetting or ignoring it."