http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/...hange-medicare-medicaid/?mod=google_news_blog Voters Dislike GOP Plan to Change Medicare, Medicaid By Patrick O'Connor Republicans have some selling to do. Changes to Medicare and Medicaid remain wildly unpopular and more than two-thirds of registered voters want to repeal Bush-era tax cuts for households that make more than $250,000 a year, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. More than twice as many voters oppose efforts to change Medicare than those who favor limiting benefits under the popular health-care program for seniors. And a distinct majority opposes new limits on Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor. Whatâs worse for the GOP, the numbers donât change much when voters were told how much federal spending Medicare and Medicaid consume. Quinnipiac told half of the 1,408 registered voters the university polled that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and defense spending consume 60% of the budget. The other half werenât. Among those who were told, 70% opposed efforts to change Medicare, compared with the 75% who werenât told. For Medicaid, 57% of the first group opposed limits, compared with the 59% of the control group that also opposed changes. The only significant change came on the question of defense spending, with support for cuts increasing by 7% when voters were told how much the government spends on the military. âSo much for the idea that if the public only understood the budget numbers they would be much more amenable to reductions,â said Peter Brown, assistant director of polling at the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. âExcept for defense spending.â The House Republicansâ budget would turn Medicaid into a system of block grants to the states and transform Medicare from a fee-for-service program to a menu of subsidized private insurance plans for people under the age of 55. Many GOP lawmakers got an earful from their constituents about the budget blueprint during a recently concluded two-week recess. In addition, 69% of the voters polled favor repealing Bush-era tax breaks on households than earn more than $250,000. Republicans would keep the current rates indefinitely, while President Barack Obama has promised to raise them for people whose income exceeds $250,000.
So 70 % of people are against republicans plan to end medicare and 69 % want the Bush tax cuts for the rich to end This alone should win 2012 if the the democrats play it right.Every commercial should mention the GOP wants to end medicare and keep the tax cuts for the rich
Democrats playing it right is historically a rare event. EG: Gore losing an election handed to him. Remember what Will Rogers said: "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." "Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans." Seneca
could that be because democrats are a conglomeration of those leaders with money who wish to exploit their voting block - minorities, those who suck off the govt, freeloaders, losers, radicals, those who hate america, and nambla like perverts. Its seems the only common thread is govt money.
Pelosi and Boehner reacting to poll showing just about all possible voters are opposed to messing with Medicare. Seneca
If we leave medicare alone or we do the Ryan plan. seems that either way medicare as we know it will end.