bobbyw24
06-01-2011, 06:01 AM
“The Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them, ‘You know what? You’re on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the health-care insurance market. We’re going to throw you to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions. We’re going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out.’ ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/05/31/National-Politics/Images/Democrats_Chairwoman_02614.jpg?uuid=yJOTvovUEeCZay hmbs4mYQ
— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, May 29, 2011
Something about the debate over Medicare prompts eye-popping rhetoric. A few weeks ago, it was Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying the Republican plan for Medicare would let cancer patients “die sooner.” This weekend, on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Wasserman Schultz said Republicans would “throw you to the wolves.”
We’ve previously taken Republicans to task for claiming their plan is “a system just like members of Congress and federal employees have.” Not so. We also criticized Sebelius for her assertion. So where does the DNC leader stand in this collection of conflicting claims?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/wasserman-schultzs-bogus-claim-that-the-gop-medicare-plan-will-throw-you-to-the-wolves/2011/05/31/AG8y9lFH_blog.html?hpid=z1#pagebreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/05/31/National-Politics/Images/Democrats_Chairwoman_02614.jpg?uuid=yJOTvovUEeCZay hmbs4mYQ
— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, May 29, 2011
Something about the debate over Medicare prompts eye-popping rhetoric. A few weeks ago, it was Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying the Republican plan for Medicare would let cancer patients “die sooner.” This weekend, on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Wasserman Schultz said Republicans would “throw you to the wolves.”
We’ve previously taken Republicans to task for claiming their plan is “a system just like members of Congress and federal employees have.” Not so. We also criticized Sebelius for her assertion. So where does the DNC leader stand in this collection of conflicting claims?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/wasserman-schultzs-bogus-claim-that-the-gop-medicare-plan-will-throw-you-to-the-wolves/2011/05/31/AG8y9lFH_blog.html?hpid=z1#pagebreak