Turns out the Dems are the ones intent on murdering grandma. When grandma gets sick she better hope she can find a doctor who works for the same wages as fruit pickers.
Thomas R. Saving and John C. Goodman: Mediscare—The Surprising Truth - WSJ.com
more at the sourceThe Obama administration has repeatedly claimed that the health-reform bill it passed last year improved Medicare's finances. Although you'd never know it from the current state of the Medicare debatewith the Republicans being portrayed as the Medicare Grinchesthe claim is true only because ObamaCare explicitly commits to cutting health-care spending for the elderly and the disabled in future years.
Yet almost no one familiar with the numbers thinks that the planned brute-force cuts in Medicare spending are politically feasible. Last August, the Office of the Medicare Actuary predicted that Medicare will be paying doctors less than what Medicaid pays by the end of this decade and, by then, one in seven hospitals will have to leave the Medicare system.
Thomas R. Saving and John C. Goodman: Mediscare—The Surprising Truth - WSJ.com