Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Nancy Pelosi and Entitlement “Reform”

This afternoon, USA Today published an op-ed from former Speaker Pelosi expressing her opposition to an increase in the Medicare retirement age.  Pelosi claimed that “We can do better – and we have.  Democrats are the only ones who have enacted a plan that extends the solvency of Medicare without cutting benefits through [Obamacare].”

Pelosi’s claims are particularly ironic, because last November, one leading Democrat admitted that the party “took a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare in [Obamacare], the health care bill” to pay for Obamacare’s new programs.  That speaker?  Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi is right about one thing: We CAN do better – better than Obamacare.  And we should take no lessons on entitlement “reform” from someone who by her own admission “took half a trillion dollars out of Medicare” to pay for more new unsustainable federal programs.