Screw The Seniors....... ObamaCare comes first.

http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-s-great-medicare-lie   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    

snip  -----------   Romney began airing a new attack ad Wednesday telling Americans that President Obama has taken $716 billion dollars that American taxpayers paid into Medicare, and used their money for Obamacare. He says seniors’ money won’t be there to pay for their medical care. The ad makes it appear that Obama is “stealing” money deducted from workers pay checks.

snip  ----------   The problem with all of this, like the ad on Social Security, the Medicare ad is a bare faced lie.

snip  ----------   Here is an easy-to-understand explanation of the truth. Obama did not take a red cent out of the Medicare Trust Fund, nor a cent of the money Americans paid in. He did not cut a cent from the benefit package for current or future Medicare recipients. All that money is there and will continue to be there until it is paid out in medical benefits.

snip -----------   What Obama did is use $716 billion over 10 years ($71 billion a year) from future savings in the Medicare Trust Fund and he uses that money for seniors’ health care benefits. That money comes from excessive and wasteful “administrative costs” paid to drug companies, hospitals, and doctors. The money is being used, through Obamacare, for things like closing the donut hole in senior drug benefits, which is already saving seniors on their prescriptions, as well as free cancer screenings, and other medical services to seniors.

snip --------   Obama is taking money from drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals, not from seniors.

snip ----------   What is disgusting about Romney’s charge is that the Ryan Budget, which Romney said he would sign into law on day one, takes the very same $716 out of Medicare. Actually, depending on which version they enact, they might take $2 trillion from Medicare. The difference is he and Paul Ryan would use that money to pay for new tax cuts for the rich. They use the money to reduce the amount the tax cuts add to the deficit.

snip -----------   Should we take the $716 billion in savings and use it for medical services for seniors, or use it to make up for another tax cut for the top 1%? That is the question.