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Republicans duplicitous
Remember way back when Democrats were working hard to expand and lower the costs of health care in America through the Affordable Health Care Act? Remember Republicans screaming the talking point that claimed the needed reforms would lead to death panels and the denial of health care to some that they were unable to define?
Now, these same Republicans are demanding that Medicare and Medicaid be cut drastically and that the cost of what’s left be increased by privatizing the programs all in order to preserve the Bush budget-busting tax cuts gifted to the wealthy top few percent, along with the subsidies handed to large outsourcing multinational corporations, or else. …
Do some homework, be honest and answer which side of the aisle is definitively legislating as a death panel for America’s vulnerable seniors, children and disabled. Republican duplicity gives me a headache in my eye.
Jen Davidsen
Spokane