Vouchercare Is Not Medicare

What?s in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would ?end Medicare.? This, the letter insisted, was a false claim: the plan would simply install a ?new, sustainable version of Medicare.?

Paul Krugman

But Comcast, the station?s owner, rejected the demand ? and rightly so. For Republicans are indeed seeking to dismantle Medicare as we know it, replacing it with a much worse program.

I?m seeing many attempts to shout down anyone making this obvious point, and not just from Republican...

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Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/05/vouchercare_is_not_medicare_256731.html

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