President Obama saving Medicare

[ProSense]

President Obama saving Medicare

by RASalvatore .

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The Democrats in Congress and the President have quietly helped to save Medicare in ways that few people know.

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http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2011/08/medicare-spending-slows-sharply-few-seem-to-notice-part-1.html

From 2000 through 2009, Medicare’s outlays climbed by an average of 9.7 percent a year.

There's your unfunded liability. There's the bank-breaker. There's the nuclear bomb for the Nordquist dreams, right there.

That rate of climb is unsustainable. Period.

Well, President Obama and Congressional Dems to the rescue, despite fierce opposition (to put it mildly).

By contrast, since the beginning of 2010, Medicare spending has been rising by less than 4 percent a year. On this, both Standard Poor’s Index Committee and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agree.

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Krugman, August 2010: Bending The Curve

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In other words, the Medicare actuaries believe that the cost-saving provisions in the Obama health reform will make a huge difference to the long-run budget outlook. Yes, it’s just a projection, and debatable like all projections. And it’s still not enough. But anyone who both claims to be worried about the long-run deficit and was opposed to health reform has some explaining to do. All the facts we have suggest that health reform was the biggest move toward fiscal responsibility in a long, long time.

Krugman, February 2011: "Mr. Obama gets too little credit. He has done more to rein in long-run deficits than any previous president."

Medicare prescription drug premiums will not increase, more seniors receiving free preventive care, discounts in the donut hole

[polichick]

1. Wish the WH would hire some first-rate messenging people! k&r

[uponit7771]

3. The messaging is abismal

[polichick]

6. Maybe Donny Deutsch could help them out - he's a contributing Dem.

[scheming daemons]

4. Too many on our own side are working to drown out these kinds of messages

ProSense gets vilified in DU on a continuous basis... why?


Because ProSense has the nerve to point out all the good that is happening under a Democratic President on a Democratic web site!

[polichick]

5. Stop focusing on this message board - I'm talking Madison Ave. messengers...

...not a bunch of amateurs on the internet.

[Whisp]

9. yes, I'm sure the Wolf Blitzers will help out with that.

don't think so.

but keep on blaming the 'spineless wordless' democrats, it's much easier than to accept that the same lying media that adored and kissed Bush's ass is now filled with credible journalists (because they support the 'Obama is a useless ineffective tool' that so many here agree with)

jeebus.

[JoePhilly]

11. As an example, Obama spoke today, and took questions, CNN and MSNBC

both joined late, and cut away multiple times.

On MSNBC, Andrea "Mrs Greenspan" Mitchell, cut away once to play a recording of Rick Perry.

So the President is speaking LIVE ... but Andrea needs to cut away for a recording of Perry.

[jwirr]

14. This is an issue that Rachel would be good at. She does some

really good in-depth stories on specific issues.

[polichick]

13. I'm talking about professional messengers (Madison Ave ad people)...

...not talking heads on fake news shows - we need GREAT ADS!

[Whisp]

15. ads are okay but

they just can't compete with multiple networks that have hours of free advertising for the Repugs and hours of cutting down the President via their programming and supposed 'experts'

[phleshdef]

10. You can't fit substance based policies that are of a wonkish nature on a bumper sticker.

One of the reasons Republicans are so good at messaging is that they aren't selling any kind of message that has any real weight behind it. Its just platitude, bumper sticker politics. That kind of thing is easy to message because it has no real substance. Democrats, especially the more liberal ones, tend to dig into the depth of an issue in order to actually do something substantial to fix it. Its the kind of thing thats damn near scientific and it takes a good degree of understanding various forces in order to do that. Its the kind of business for educated people. In the practice of governing, thats a good thing because we have advanced problems and that requires advanced thinking and advanced solutions. But it doesn't translate well into campaigning and politics at all, especially not with the national attention deficit disorder this country seems to have.

[polichick]

12. Better find a way if we want to win.

[uponit7771]

2. Nah, to hell with facts PRIMARY HIM NOW !!! /sarcasm

[cbayer]

7. Lots of kudos go to Dr. Don Berwick, who the Republicans are going to try and remove

at the end of this session.

We need to do everything we can to keep Dr. Berwick at CMS.

Start lobbying Congress now!

K & R

[yodermon]

8. DEMOCRATS should be on EVERY NEWS SHOW hammering this point OVER and OVER

where are they?