Seniors Determined to Protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security from Budget Cuts
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Seniors across the country are marching and lobbying to make sure lawmakers don’t use the debate on the debt ceiling as an opportunity to cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
With the 46th anniversary of Medicare fast approaching on July 30, members of the Alliance for Retired Americans this week began a series of events nationwide to let their representatives know they do not want the money working people depend on in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to be used for another taxpayer handout to Wall Street and the rich. The Republican’s budget proposal would replace Medicare with underfunded vouchers for private insurance and cut both Medicaid and Social Security.
Drop Dead? Is That the Way Republican Reps. Talk to Seniors?
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Opponents of critically needed health care reform continue to demonstrate how out of touch they are with working America—and in a recent egregious comment by a House Republican, the opposition has also insulted the nation’s seniors.
Here’s what Florida Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said Tuesday on the House floor:
“Last week, Democrats released a health care bill which essentially said to America’s seniors: ‘Drop dead.’ ”
Tony Fransetta, president of the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, is outraged by Brown-Waite’s injudicious and downright ugly comment.
Rep. Brown-Waite’s remarks earlier this week were not only inappropriate and inaccurate, but they were a misleading and divisive attempt to scare Florida’s seniors in the current debate over national health care reform.
