WHO NEEDS THOSE SENIORS?  THEY DON'T SKI IN ASPEN ANYWAY - AT 12:59 P.M. ET:  My, my, my, how the Democratic Party has changed.  At one time it was the champion of the elderly.  Now it doesn't care.  After all, people get more conservative as they get older, don't they?  Who needs 'em?  About as useful as the unborn.

The truth is starting to come out about the Democratic health "reform" plan.  The Washington Post, admirably for a liberal paper, reports:

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.

Congress could intervene to avoid such an outcome, but "so doing would likely result in significantly smaller actual savings" than is currently projected, according to the analysis by the chief actuary for the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. That would wipe out a big chunk of the financing for the health-care reform package, which is projected to cost $1.05 trillion over the next decade.

COMMENT:  One of the scare lines used by Democrats over the decades was that the Republicans would take away Social Security.  Of course, they never did.  Now we find that it's the Democrats who are short-circuiting their own creation, Medicare.  And why?  Because they really don't care about people.  They care about political theory, and radical theory at that.

This is the same crowd that "wept" for the "people of Vietnam," but said nothing when those people were enslaved.  These are the same people who run to Cuba to marvel at its health-care system, but are silent about the hundreds of thousands of political prisoners.

Expect no good of these people.  Harry Truman must be fighting to get out of his grave and shout.

November 15,  2009