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DON’T SELL OUT THE SENIORS! Oh man there aren’t many things better than John McCain whining and snarling for several minutes about how he must save the Olds from this black’s health care death program. “Hospice… OF ALL THE THINGS, HOSPICE! Uhh.. some… eight billion dollars!… All of these are cuts in the obligations that we have… assumed… and are a rightful… rightful…” He’s introduced an amendment, is the thing!
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went on quite a tear on the Senate floor. McCain is the author of the first proposed Republican amendment to the Senate health care bill, which, if passed, would send the legislation back to the Finance Committee and have it stripped of hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare savings. In all likelihood, that would kill the bill. But assuming it didn’t, most of those savings come from ending over-payments to private insurers under Medicare advantage–something McCain himself proposed many times in the past, in addition to other, drastic cuts to Medicare.
Indeed, McCain’s 2008 campaign, which never cared much for gay-fairy “specifics,” somehow declared that it would pay for its own health care plan by cutting $1.3 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade by “fixing them,” vaguely. One of the central ideas was — and this is classic McCain 2008, we’re getting nostalgic! — to “eliminate Medicare fraud.” Which is a huge problem to be sure, but also very hard to simply “eliminate.” How would you eliminate this John McCain? Eh we’ll just eliminate it goddamnit, the fraud, there’s a trillion smackeroos overnight, HEHNGNN?
(Remember also when he said he would close the entire multi-trillion dollar federal deficit by eliminating earmarks, which total like $15 to $20 billion a year and come from streams of existing appropriated funds anyway? God he would lie so much.)
Anyway.
Reid Spokesman: McCain Amendment A ‘Big Fat Wet Kiss’ To The Insurance Industry [TPM]
Thanks, “Reid spokesman,” for putting McCain and “big fat wet kiss” in the same sentence. Thanks a big, steaming pile of dogshit.
I for one will support an amendment to provide hot bottled water for dehydrated seniors in order to assuage this monumental loser’s monumental concerns.
“A Big Fat Wet Kiss?” That’s a pretty strong statement for coming from Sen. Reid’s office. Harry Reid should let this spokesman do all his floor speeches, too. And make love to his wife for him.
McCain’s got so many people’s nuts stored up in his cheeks, he’s practically a ventriloquist.
Zip it, Gramps.
Hey McCunt: http://www.themanschoice.com/Stroke29.html?ucp=3616
We DO WANT the money for socialist hospice care which is run by a panel of people who decide the best way olds should…um..die? Yes a DEATH PANEL if you will. Oh fuck it all to hell, I’m so confused now.
So the insurance industry finally hired that cute blonde lobbyist, huh?
This is good for John McCain.
5 and a 1/2 years of NV healthcare made him bitter.
Or SayItWithWookies hit the blond nail that looks like a younger Cindy on the head.
Forgive WALNUTS! if he seems distracted. Last night, he saw an early draft of Meg’s novel and he does not care for this “John McCabe” character.
McCain supports death panels? Does Sarah’s facebook page know about this?
Which of his homes will he sell to save those Olds less fortunate than himself?
After the health care bill passes, all these born-again Medicare converts will flip back to their traditional “Medicare is 70% fraud, 30% needless bureaucracy” position. Then we’ll have hours of entertainment playing their impassioned speeches defending hospice care when they introduce bills to defund Medicare. Oh the hijinx!
BIG GOVENRMENT WASTE WELFARE QUEENS IN CADILLACS, HEHHHGN?
(Sometimes I actually miss the 1980’s.)
Okay, I’m adding my own amendment to the aforeposted “Die Already” day pronouncement. Now it’s the “Crawl Away and Die Somewhere, You Fat and Old Irrelevant Fucks” day. Thanks Walnuts!
every sensible person knows the solution to the olds and medicare and government bankruptcy conundrum can be found in a bottle of rye. and vodka will do, or rum. you get my drift. each old gets a liter of his or her preferred spiritous beverage and goes to meet the great spirit on the icepack. feeds the polar bears, too.
On the motion to commit, I vote that he should be committed.
Is the economy still in great shape?
Way to stay relevant WALNUTS!
McCain’s plan to eliminate Medicare fraud was pretty simple: AIR STRIKES, AIR STRIKES, AIR STRIKES! The only potential bad consequences would be a bunch of damn frauds who weren’t actually in the indiscriminate nursing homes targeted claiming they were injured from the missiles.
How are we supposed to contain Medicare fraud if all these uninsured people live long enough to start using it?
slappypaddy: Yep, that’s how I want to go out if I ever get the urge to move to a place like “The Villages” in Florida. Good plan.
Walnuts is a hypocrite & a total jerk.
But, speaking of The Olds:
It is not true that Medicare advantage programs are unnecessary.
The Olds must buy private insurance anyway - for medications (oh, say like THC, or whatever).
The “advantage” programs have covered prescription drugs & a lot more for the same amount of money as the “part D”
prescription drug insurance programs. Many “advantage” programs are going out of business right now in fear of the bill.
Those that still exist are raising their rates.
The Olds will definitely lose with this healthcare reform.
Expect your grandpa to try for a greeter job at Wally World.
It will be great that the pre-existing condition thingy will be gone.
It will be great that some wimpy-assed version of a “public option” will get its’ foot in the door.
But, the Olds actually are being thrown under the bus, kiddies.
Shouldn’t Walnuts be working on a war tax bill or something?
Is McCain gonna do a filibuster? Because that would be great to watch him HEHHHGNH himself to death.
That’s so weird. Until I saw this, i thought he had totally dropped out of politics. Weird. Cuz I mean, who would still think that they um, could bring anything to the table after the um…election?
Gorillionaire: How do you FIND this stuff??
proudgrampa: Actually, when I saw Stroke29, I thought of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA
The aide who is in charge of keeping track of his purported policy positions just lost his or her job.
FIX
IT
FIX IT
proudgrampa: I suppose you could order it from their website. Let us know how it works out!
Oh, Phew. I was afraid you weren’t going to say, “HEHNGNN”. Way to keep up the dramatic tension!
kapish: no, because the Advantage plans have a 30% overhead.
They will not go under if they console themselves with the profit margin, say,
a casino is happy with..18% or so.
WALNUTS! has railed against medicare waste, fraud and abuse along with all the other Republicans.
I wonder what changed?
Oh? Cute blond lobbyist with a briefcase full o’ cash?!
first thing he would do, ok, would be to gather all the nurses and doctors and old people and janitors into a single room and be like “cut the bullshit”.
sati demise: Nice thought, but many are already gone.