Bush: Take From The Poor-Give To The Rich!

I ran across this article and after reading it I thought
is this fool in the White House really trying to live up
to the name Lame-Duck president? He wants to make
major cuts in medicare which will affect thepoor and
at the same time give tax-breaks to the wealthy that
don't need it. Somebody get me a rope!

The budget President Bush proposed Monday calls for the deepest Medicare cuts of his six years in office and falls short in expanding health coverage to uninsured children — a top priority for congressional Democrats this year.Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt acknowledged the budget's austere tone, but said action was needed to rein in programs growing at an unsustainable pace.

"A very clear priority of the budget has been to reach balance in 2012," he told reporters Monday, "and that has forced many of the hard decisions." Consumer and industry groups — including AARP, the American Medical Assn., the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Assn. and the California Hospital Assn. — roundly criticized Bush's plan, and their opposition signaled that it was unlikely to gain traction. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont), chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health, dismissed the budget as "an exercise in make-believe intended to incite partisanship, not invite policymaking.

"Separately, Bush's proposed tax deduction of up to $15,000 for health insurance ran into more problems after an independent analysis concluded that most of the tax break would go to higher-income households that already have private insurance.Bush had outlined the plan last month in his State of the Union message. But a study by the Lewin Group, a healthcare consulting firm, found that only about 21% of the tax breaks would go to families with at least one uninsured member. A little more than half the benefit would go to families earning $75,000 or more.





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