Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You

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by Smitty

I had already planned to take a long weekend when I heard about Americans for Prosperity’s Hands Off My Healthcare rally in Richmond.

It was a drizzly affair, with roughly 500 in attendance from all over the state. Speakers included Delegate Steve Landes, who dared to ask questions like “Aren’t we already broke?” and Dr. Clara Belle Wheeler, who did not exactly characterize the existing Medicaid program as an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with submarine dreams, but certainly expressed misgivings:
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  5. I’m still curious what part of the Constitution (besides the commerce clause) gives the Feds any say whatever in health care. It was messed up before ObamaCare, and I don’t see it getting any better.

    At least, not until the dollar collapses.

  6. We need to remember that Medicare was a program whose unstated purpose was to relieve Baby Boomers of the obligation to care for their elderly parents. Not only was it another cut in the decades long campaign to destroy the family in favor of paternalistic government, but of course, was doomed to fail because the boomers stopped having enough kids to fund it. Thus we arrive where we are today.

  8. “They have the same likes signs and like shirts and like were organized by this activist group like and so it’s just evil corporate astroturf!1!11!!!”

    /left-wing media

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