Michigan legislative action thread
My reply:
Please remove me from your distribution list. I don’t need to hear from quisling GOPe members that have no sense of history. Your argument is the same that was made nearly 50 years ago and look where that got us. Instead of realizing history, you prefer to “build upon” the collectivism that will enslave my grandchildren.
I will fight, you can concede. Just stay out of our way.
“When Medicare launched, nobody had any clue whether it would work”
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Medicare is, these days, an incredibly popular program. Americans overwhelmingly oppose cutting it. No politician would consider repealing it. Most think providing health insurance to all Americans over 65 is worth the both the trouble and the cost.
This was not always true. Back in 1966, as Medicare was just about to launch, nobody knew whether the new program would provide benefits to millions or fail completely. Sound familiar?
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Like the Affordable Care Act, the fight over Medicare was contentious. President John F. Kennedy had tried to extend health benefits to the elderly and failed.
The American Medical Association vehemently opposed the law. Two months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, the American Medical Association ran ads across the country denouncing the program as “the beginning of socialized medicine.”
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The federal government launched “Project Medicare Alert,” a program that hired 5,000 workers to enroll seniors in Medicare. The “$2 million crash effort,” as described by The Post, was meant to “inform isolated elderly Americans of the availability of Medicare benefits.” Workers, hired for a 20-week stint, were paid $1.25 per hour.
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Michigan ping.
What a quisling. Dehorn this RINO in the next primary, MI conservatives.
Hold it right there. None of those three are "conservatives."
Just a heads up BTW.
A.G. Bill Schuette Making a major announcement about a Detroit public corruption case at 11AM.
“...but when the Governor makes a decision I will support and help implement that decision.”
Such a good boy and stooge.
So if your governor decided to open a “new and improved” Auschwitz, you would support this and help implement this too?