The Liberal Campaign AGAINST Seniors — and Medicare
The New York Times ran an editorial yesterday talking about a “real choice on Medicare” – and indeed it provided one, if perhaps unwittingly. In comparing and contrasting the two parties’ views on health care and entitlement reform, the editorial included the following analysis:
The two parties have very different approaches to what they would do with their [Medicare] savings. The Democrats would use the savings to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, a goal we heartily endorse. The Republicans say only that they would use the money in some way to bolster the solvency of Medicare. That is not good enough.
In other words, to the liberal editors at the Times, it’s “not good enough” to use savings from Medicare to ensure seniors receive the benefits they were promised – no, instead Medicare MUST be raided (through budgetary double-counting and other accounting gimmicks) to create unsustainable entitlements for millions more Americans.
Keep the New York Times’ “compassion” in mind the next time you read columns attacking Republicans for their budgetary choices – as I for one shall take no lessons on entitlement reform from an editorial board that views bolstering the solvency of a financially failing program as a moral shortcoming.