Are You/Do You Plan To Take Medicare Benefits?

  • 1
    52.15% (291 votes)
    Yes, I will be a hypocrite
  • 2
    35.3% (197 votes)
    No, I will stay true to my beliefs
  • 3
    12.54% (70 votes)
    Undecided

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  1. DC said on Mar 22 2010, 14:03 PM:

    I voted "yes" on both questions, but I don't see how that makes me a hypocrite. The government takes my $1.00, gives me back $0.05 as health care and I am a hypocrite? That's not a hypocrite. That's an idiot. Now repeat this 1 trillion times. That's not a hypocrite. That's a congress!

  2. Dwight E. Howell said on Mar 21 2010, 22:03 PM:

    If you wanted to help the lower income people get coverage all you had to do was expand medicaid: twenty pages should cover that! Duh! Of course I'd like to see Congress figure out some way to actually_pay_ for what they have already promised to do before we promise to do a lot more with money we don't have. What I expect ten years or so down the road without the health care bill is we run out of money. That means the entire social safety net fails. I think that is a bad thing. With the bill we just run out of money sooner. By the way some drug companies in some states are already refusing to take new Medicaid customers. They say they aren't covering costs. I think that needs to be fixed first. Some doctors are refusing to take medicaid and medicare patients and a few don't take insurance either. They take cash. This is change I can do without. The people that put this bill together and passed it are so irresponsible they defy my ability to come up with a words for their level of incompetence.

  3. mangurian said on Mar 21 2010, 19:03 PM:

    I want a special exception. I want medicare and everyone gets nothing. This will buy my vote in favor of the health care bill. This sort of bribe seems to be the way of getting support, so now I want mine !!

  4. David said on Mar 21 2010, 13:03 PM:

    There is nothing inconsistent at all in opposing the outrageous and unprecedented attack on poor folk contained in this bill while simultaneously supporting Medicare. That should, in fact, be the position of any principled "progressive". Of course, the concept of principled "progressive" is an oxymoron. Like all statists, the "progressive" abandon their principles and fall in behind the leaders of their team while he raises the standard. There is nothing hypocritical about opposing Medicare while planning to use it either. After all, the government has stolen my money for many years. Why shouldn't I get a bit of it back by using these programs? For the record,I voted yes on both of these polls, but I'm no hypocrite - just a realist trying to make my way through an unfree world as best I can.