Obama to Seniors: 'Drop Dead'

by Robert E. Moffit
05/27/2010

According to surveys, no group of Americans is more skeptical of Obamacare than senior citizens—and with good reason.

While bits and pieces of the massive law are designed to appeal to seniors—more taxpayer subsidies for the Medicare drug benefit, for example—much of the financing over the initial ten years is siphoned off from an estimated $575 billion in projected savings to the Medicare program. Unless Medicare savings are captured and plowed right back into the Medicare program, however, the solvency of the Medicare program will continue to weaken. The law does not provide for that. Medicare is already burdened by an unfunded liability of $38 trillion.

Medicare Advantage plans, which currently attract almost one in four seniors, will see enrollment cut roughly in half over the next 10 years. Senior citizens will thus be more dependent on traditional Medicare than they are today and will have fewer health care choices.

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yep, conservatives have all the answers.  Usually they involve doing nothing while the Titanic sinks, so long as Big Business isn't inconvenienced.  It couldn't be that seniors, like anyone looking after their own interests, will typically be against anything that costs them more or cuts their benefits...no matter how badly the financial Titanic is sinking.  No, the fact that seniors are against something tells me nothing more than they are looking to keep what they get regardless of whether it worsens a problem or not.  We see the same thing with unions, teachers, etc.  It's not really bad or good -- its simply self-preservation instinct.