{"id":5974,"date":"2011-09-29T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2011-09-29T00:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:30:43","slug":"coburn-and-lieberman-target-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/coburn-and-lieberman-target-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Coburn and LIEberman target seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to imagine a more terrible twosome than Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Joe Lieberman (Asshole-CT).  This Republican, and his former DINO and Republican wannabe sidekick, are loaded for big game.  They are targeting Granny, because they want to take away her Medicare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29Lieberman-Coburn\"Ugh. They’re back. Sens. Joe Lieberman and Tom Coburn are trying to put the catfood in the Catfood Commission II<\/strong>, pressing the Super Congress punish seniors<\/a><\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n

Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are pressing the deficit-reduction supercommittee to consider their proposal to cut more than $500 billion in Medicare spending over ten years.[…] <\/font><\/p>\n

They urged the panel to review the Medicare reform plan they released in June.<\/font><\/p>\n

It would increase the share that beneficiaries pay into the program to account for 35 percent, instead of 25 percent, of Medicare revenues<\/strong>.  It would also require higher income earners to pay a greater share of Medicare Part B, which covers doctors’ visits, and Part D, which covers prescription drugs.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lieberman and Coburn would require people 65 and older who make more than $150,000 annually to pay the full cost of Part B coverage and full premium costs for Part D.<\/font><\/p>\n

The plan was roundly rejected<\/a><\/font> by Democrats when it was introduced in June\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Most seniors cannot afford an increase in their Medicare cost.  Although raising the rates even more for the rich may sound progressive, it is not.  If Medicare provides benefits to the poor for less, it ceases it to be a true entitlement program, and becomes a welfare program.  Medicare is a true entitlement program now, because beneficiaries have spent their entire working lives, since it passed, paying for the benefits they now receive.  We are entitled, because we earned it.  Changing it to a welfare program only makes it easier for Republicans to target it later for their true goal, a scheme to replace Medicare with a coupon, with no guarantee of care.<\/font><\/p>\n

I have no doubt that Coburn has the Hypocrite Oath on his wall.  As for Traitor Joe, since he insists on goose-stepping with Republicans, The Democratic Caucus in the Senate should strip him of the Homeland Security Chair.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to imagine a more terrible twosome than Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Joe Lieberman (Asshole-CT).  This Republican, and his former DINO and Republican wannabe sidekick, are loaded for big game.  They are targeting Granny, because they want to take away her Medicare. Ugh. They’re back. Sens. Joe Lieberman and Tom Coburn are trying to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}