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Originally Posted by Galaxy
One thing I don't get.
"Obama's budget calls for setting aside $634 billion over the next 10 years as a down payment on health care reform. Half the money would come from tax increases on upper-income earners; the other half from cuts to Medicare and Medicaid."
How does cutting Medicare and Medicaid improve health care access, health care quality, and the cost of it?
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In the Medicare prescription bill was a provision to offer private coverage under some circumstances. That private coverage turned out to be no better, but far costlier than Medicare. Obama wants to kill the private coverage option which will save a lot of mone.