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Steele Changes Tune on Medicare Cuts

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(Newser) – The RNC has joined the fracas over health care reform with a proposed “seniors’ bill of rights” that guards against Medicare cuts, ABC News reports. “Our seniors have really come under fire in the last few weeks,” says RNC chair Michael Steele—who backed Medicare cuts as a Senate candidate in 2006. His argument today on Good Morning America: "We should protect the seniors' ability to access health care."

President Obama has called Medicare “one of the greatest threats to our federal deficit,” but the reform bill proposes no cuts in benefits. “What's really disturbing is this feigned interest in Medicare and the plight of seniors is coming from the Republican Party,” a DNC official says, “the very Republican Party which opposed the creation of Medicare to begin with."

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.   (AP Photo)
President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama.   (AP Photo)
A summary of the 2009 annual reports on Social Security and Medicare sits on a table at the Treasury Department.
A summary of the 2009 annual reports on Social Security and Medicare sits on a table at the Treasury Department.   (AP Photo)
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This is really another way to make sure that we're having the right debate here in America about what health care really means.
- RNC chairman Michael Steele

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easterner
Aug 24, 09 1:14 PM CDT
"We should protect the seniors' ability to access health care," Steele said on "Good Morning America" Monday. ....This sound familiar !...Oh ya Kennedy been saying this for about 30 + years Reply
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UrUndertaker
Aug 24, 09 2:45 PM CDT
Steele is the lowest type of oppertunist around, he flip flops worse than any in recorded history and now is in search of the next Republican lie and smear tactic. The Birther thing fell flat, the gun packing citizens all turned out to be from the same glee club and planted for headlines so they metophotically shot themselves in the foot with that also, they want something new to scare grand mom and pop with as rulering by fear and lies is the same old Party Of NO.
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Newser001
Aug 24, 09 1:17 PM CDT
Oh, really, Mr GOP !!! It appears seniors can have gaurenteed medical benefits, while the rest of us are left out to dry... Hypocrite ! Reply
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Newser001
Aug 24, 09 1:24 PM CDT
What the Oldest Americans Think - By THE NEW YORK TIMES: At The New Old Age blog, contributor Jane Gross has just posted an interesting reflection regarding how little is known about what Americans ages 85 and older, arguably the group most exposed to the current health system, think of proposals to change it. Read the post: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/in-health-debate-the-oldest-voices-are-also-faintest/ Reply
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Fondue
Aug 24, 09 2:21 PM CDT
That's a good article, Newser001.
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