Re: The Medicare Bill & AARP

Unbelievable!  I've stayed up all night to follow this thing, it's 6:00
AM here in California already.  The Repug Medicare Bill lost the votes
initially, but the Repugs just dragged it along, and threatened to drag
out the voting forever until it is passed, sort of like a sequestered
jury is forced to go without sleep until they decide on the guilt of a
defendent.  And now it has finally passed.  The Repugs have changed the
rules of government.   
              
Unbelievable!  And they pull this stunt, on this day, on JFK's
assasination, this is how they honor JFK, by destroying the Medicare
that he created in the first place.         
Unbelievable! These guys have no shame!
          
The God Damn Repugs control the Senate also, so this bill will pass
there too.   What a curse these Repugs are! 
        
What's going to happen here is that the HMO's will be able to pick and
choose the healthy seniors, these are the seniors who will cost the
HMO's little or nothing, and then the sick ones will be rejected and
left behind to suffer in the government run Medicare system, a system
that will be saddled with much more tasks and then given less money to
boot.  Then the Repugs will argue that Medicare doesn't work and that
the whole thing should be privatized, and then they will eliminate
Medicare completely.  This is what the Repugs are planning to do.  These
guys have absolutely no shame whatsoever!         
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/22/national0628EST0487.DTL

"In the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be
found that truth is still mightier than the sword":

Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Graduated from West Point at the top of his
class, then served brilliantly in WW1, WW2 & the Korean war)

Educate yourself and go to these links: 

http://www.buzzflash.com & http://www.moveon.org &
http://www.veteransforpeace.org & http://www.salon.com &
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/LiberalFAQ.htm &
http://www.barbrastreisand.com