Cuts proposed in Medicare and Medicaid

I am by no means a number cruncher nor am I someone that can help determine the best course of action on money dilemmas. Here comes the BUT. But I do know that the President is proposing cuts in Medicare and Medicaid over the next 5 years.

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The $701 billion budget (for health and human services) that Bush sent to Congress today includes $66 billion in cuts over five years from Medicare, which provides health insurance for 43 million Americans. Bush also would cut $12 billion from Medicaid for the poor and from a program that provides health insurance for low-income children.

I'm also not an advocate of universal health care. On that subject, I {believe} that most everyone is covered by a level of health care if they choose to apply. The uninsured in the middle class maybe the only exceptions to this. Now before everyone starts taking pot shots at yours truly, I'm disabled and required to depend on Uncle Sam for my health care (it's not an enjoyable feeling). The subject of universal health care is a whole discussion in itself, and one I won't get into now.

Back to budget cuts. I have tried to give President Bush every inch of rope necessary to prove the need to be in Iraq (and spend huge amounts of our tax dollars), BUT now with the notion of cutting services to the disabled, seniors and children for their health care needs, enough is enough. Here's the rest of the story. Feel free to write your Congreesman and let them know how you feel.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070205/pl_bloomberg/a7z5efc4yvos

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